http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2771

           Summary: browse() fails if Safari is renamed or moved.
           Product: D
           Version: 2.026
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P4
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla@digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: unknown@simplemachines.org


For categorization purposes, users on Macs may rename or move Safari.app from /Applications - it can even be uninstalled, if the user prefers another browser.

For example, I have multiple versions of Safari (and other browsers) on my test Mac, in /Applications/Browsers.

The open command doesn't require an application argument.  Also, the argument need not be a full path, it can be just a name (such as "Safari", rather than "/path/to/Bundle.app".)

My suggestion would be to simply pass the path to open directly, and let it use the user's prefered browser.  This seems to be the behavior on Windows and Linux.

-[Unknown]


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------- Comment #1 from unknown@simplemachines.org  2009-03-29 21:57 -------
Created an attachment (id=302)
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Omit the optional application argument to open.

This patch does what I suggest.  An alternative would be to use "Safari", which would work even if they moved the app somewhere else, but not if they renamed it (OS X keeps a cached lookup of bundle ids and names.)

-[Unknown]


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unknown@simplemachines.org changed:

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------- Comment #2 from unknown@simplemachines.org  2009-03-29 23:21 -------
Created an attachment (id=303)
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Omit the optional application argument to open (corrected.)

Arg, sorry, I need to set this up properly to make patches everywhere.

-[Unknown]


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Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED


--- Comment #3 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> 2012-12-23 10:49:25 PST ---
It now uses either "BROWSER" environment variable or "x-www-browser". I think this is fixed now (I can't test though).

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