invoke-html-browser

Arguments: path-or-url

This function is deprecated, and the newer function invoke-private-html-browser should be used instead. Note that that function no longer uses a "private" instance of a web browser that is used only by the Lisp application, and is now the general function to use for invoking a web browser.

On Windows, this older function uses hacks that were needed to avoid creating a new web browser window on each call, before web browsers began instead adding a new tab to the existing browser window when the program is run with another URL. That only works for particular browsers, where it looks for the name of the browser in the title bars of windows, and then it uses even worse hacks to simulate typing keystrokes into that window. On GTK, this function simply posts the URL or file name to the system clipboard (which the newer function will still do if it doesn't find a web browser).

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