On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 1:43 AM Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info <alpine-info@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Perhaps a feature request. > Granted I am unsure how Alpine decides what browser is used, as in when > one follows a link in an email. > Still, I am wondering if the ability to say have more than one option might > be helpful? > Especially for Linux users where sites may react oddly to anything that > does not look like a windows tool? > Just a thought, > Karen
Hello Karen, Chime answered you how to set the browser in alpine using url-viewers. Normal user would probably use gnome-www-browser, www-browser or x-www-browser, which can be symlinks to specific browsers or to xdg-open, which decides itself what application to start, for URL it choose some web browser. As it says "viewers" there can be multiple "browsers" (in fact, it can be any program of your choice). Please, use help to see exact syntax. You can defined different browsers according to different test conditions. After clicking on the link, alpine choose the first "browser" according to conditions. Then you still can edit URL and/or application (browser) before starting it. You can create some browser wrappers with short names (e.g. ff or chr) which would start firefox or google-chrome, so you don't need to write the whole command in alpine. If you are advanced user, you can write your own wrapper script, either using e.g. zenity or simple read to select the browser, or let script to choose the browser according to URL domain. Personaly I have script which stores the URL to the clipboard and then I can decide, where I want to paste it - in the browser and which browser or messaging system or somewhere else. Alpine is not as simple as thunderbird or outlook are. It requires a little bit more knowledge from user but it offers more flexibility than thunderbird or outlook. TB/Outlook just start browser on URL click. Alpine does the same by default, but you can configure it to work according to your needs, but you have to do it yourself. I believe your "feature request" is already implemented :-) Regards, Robert. _______________________________________________ Alpine-info mailing list Alpine-info@u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
