How come nothing happens when I try to view something that launches the Web browser?
Most likely your do not have the path pointing to the browser executable set correctly, or a default browser selected. The BrowserLauncher utility we’re using requires a default browser be identified in order to work properly. To change this you need to either choose a default browser (both MSIE and Netscape give you this option), or if you’re on a UNIX-based machine, manually set the $PATH variable to point to where your browser executable is. To select a default browser on startup on a Windows-based PC, do the following: for MSIE, go into ‘Tools’, ‘Internet Options’ ‘Programs’, and select the ‘Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default’ checkbox; for Netscape it’s a little trickier. Assuming the browser was installed in the usual place, go into ‘C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\default’ and open the ‘prefs.js’ file in your favorite text editor. Change the line where it says ‘user_pref(“browser.wfe.ignore_def_check”, true);’ to ‘user_pref(“browser.wfe.ignore_def_ch
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