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In Help chapter "Using a Web Browser With the IDE" writen: "You can open a web browser from the IDE in two ways: Choose View -> Web Browser (Ctrl-7) to open the browser to your home page. Choose Help ->Bookmarks -> web-site-name to open the browser to a predefined site. You can configure the IDE to use either the internal Swing HTML browser or an external web browser. " However SWING browser always opened via Ctrl-7 or via View->Web Browser. Your settings for default browser for IDE ignored. Well reproduced with S1S 4.1 build 020814
Dup of 26637. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 26637 ***
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