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thumbtech wrote:
A useful solution you may want to consider is to let the user set the Primary or Secondary browser to an option specified as "System Default" as opposed to a specific application, then if the Open URL command is triggered to a browser specified as "System Default", you just throw the generic open url (like Help menu -> Home Page) and let the system handle it instead of trying to get clever and open a specific application first.
I just want to make sure this gets passed along to the development team as a feature request, since if you are having to wait for Microsoft to learn how to script tab behaviors in IE, it may never happen!
The above suggestion is the easiest and most effective method to solve this problem, as well as being the accepted convention for numerous products from publishers such as Adobe, ActiveState, etc. (see attached screenshot from Komodo Edit preferences).