From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: preferred vs. running browser Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:36:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20060423.063614.74737467.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145767008 30183 80.91.229.2 (23 Apr 2006 04:36:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:36:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 23 06:36:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXWL0-0000C8-8N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXWKz-000611-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXWKo-00060v-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXWKm-00060j-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXWKm-00060g-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.186] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FXWMh-0007d2-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.143.170.141] (helo=localhost) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1FXWKk283V-0004qn; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:36:30 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: Mew version 5.0.50 on Emacs 22.0.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2dc398bc694a1e60948148ba0a42c0da X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53253 Archived-At: IMHO there are two problems with the default browser in browse-url. . In browse-url-default-browser, Mozilla is preferred to Firefox. It seems that today Firefox is already more popular than Mozilla, so I suggest to revert the default order. . browse-url doesn't check whether one of the listed browsers is already running (assuming that browse-url-browser-function is not customized, this is, the value is 'browse-url-default-browser). In my case I have called firefox, but browse-url called mozilla. Wouldn't it be better to add some code so that a browser which is currently running is always tried first? Werner