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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:29:48PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Carlo Segre <segre@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
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> * Package name : libwwwbrowser-perl
> Version : 2.23
> Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <slaven@xxxxxxxx>
> * URL : http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/src/perl/WWWBrowser/
> * License : GPL or Artistic
> Programming Lang: Perl
> Description : Platform independent means to start a WWW browser
>
> Perl module which starts a web browser, in the background for X11, with a
> specified URL. Options exist to use a user-specified browser, including
> text browsers, which are started in a terminal window.
Is this better than fork & exec("sensible-browser <url>")? Does it
refer to existing methods used to select a browser on Debian eg MIME,
the GNOME preferences etc?
thanks,
Hamish
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