Re: [PATCH] Add support for Conkeror in browse-url.el

[vibhavp]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> Instead of adding browsers to browse-url.el, we should encourage
> people to set up their preferred browser as system default, and then
> use browse-url-xdg-open, browse-url-default-windows-browser or
> browse-url-default-macosx-browser.

browse-url.el has the ability to load web pages in a new tab, instead of
a new window. Since there is no universal standard for opening web pages
in a browser, every browser does that in its own way (Firefox uses the
-remote/-new-tab arguments, chromium always opens the URL in a new
tab). Since xdg-open's job is just to provide default applications, the
"responsibility" falls on emacs itself.