os.startfile / webbrowser + Firefox

[SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk]

> From: Matthias Huening [mailto:mhuening at zedat.fu-berlin.de]
> 
> os.startfile('http://www.python.org') works fine on WinXP with IE as 
> default webbrowser. With Mozilla Firefox 0.9 as default webbrowser, 
> however, I get an error. Firefox starts, the page gets loaded 
> and then 
> Python gives me an error message (Traceback below). The same is true 
> for the webbowser module. Is this a Python problem or a Firefox 
> problem?

A Firefox problem, I think, in that the file type association doesn't seem
to get set up properly. Bill Simoni told me how to fix this:
<http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/001465.html>.

Cheers,
Simon B.




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