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Re: Opening a page in a different browser

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Richard Kimber wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

> I want to be able to open a link in a different browser just from a local
> page on my local machine. Is this possible?

Perhaps yes, but certainly not with HTML alone.  You need a *programming* 
language.

> I normally use Firefox, but certain sites don't work with Firefox

You should tell their authors after you made sure you use the latest stable 
Firefox version available for your system.

> and I want to have a local page of links that is open in Firefox (my
> normal browser) such that these awkward links fire up Google-chrome, say,
> and display the appropriate (external) linked page.

It might be possible in Firefox using XPCOM components from within 
privileged JavaScript.

<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6177583/how-to-open-exe-with-javascript-
xpcom-as-windows-run>

(Dump the browser sniffing and the `javascript:'.)

See also: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM>


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-- 
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

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Re: Opening a page in a different browser Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-24 21:43 +0100

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