Speaking of hyperlinks, I have a: message URL http://<url>
And when I click on it, it does not open a web browser. Basically, it's a dead link. Any ideas? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Steve Rickaby wrote: > I have the solution for my posting below, although I don't understand it. > > For hyperlinks of the form 'message URL http://<url>', FrameMaker correctly > opens the default browser. However, for hyperlinks that omit the protocol > field, i.e. 'message URL <url>', for example 'message URL www.microsoft.com', > it opens any version of Netscape that it can find. > > Huh? > > At 10:59 +0000 28/3/08, Steve Rickaby wrote: > > >> This is a *Mac-specific* question which we've bandied about on the FmforOSX >> group for a bit, with some interesting insights but as yet no solution. >> >> For some reason, my FrameMaker 7 installation has become obsessed with using >> Netscape when web hyperlinks are control-option-clicked in a FrameMaker >> document. I have some archive disks attached to this machine, and it managed >> to find a copy of Netscape 3 (don't ask!). When in desperation I killed >> Netscape 3, it then went off and ferreted out a copy of Netscape 4.7 that >> was sitting in backup disk copy of a friend's Mac that I'm made for them. >> >> In all cases the default browser setting for both Classic and OS X is Safari. >> >> Does anyone know how FrameMaker selects the browser to use for web >> hyperlinks, and how to configure it? I cannot find anything in the user >> guide or online help (which sometimes opens in Safari and sometimes in >> Netscape). >> > >