>> You mean, that 'System Viewer' is in TB hardcoded to IE only? RT> It clearly says so next to the setting in Preferences.
Personally, I would call that a bug in TB. As far as *ALL* other program I have that open links are concerned, the "system viewer" is the program currently configured as the default system browser. That means that I can get things to automatically open IE, FF, Chrome, Opera, or even Safari (if I'm temporarily insane) when I click a link. If TB always uses IE, then TB is wrong and broken. There is ONE somewhat reasonable exception: Windows Update always uses IE, regardless of the default browser setting. But now that newer versions of Windows have a dedicated Windows Update tool, IE isn't /visibly/ used any longer (though I suspect that the IE core is still /invisibly/ being used by Windows Update. Also, the original reporter mentioned that TB opens a DIFFERENT browser when viewing a message in TEXT vs viewing the same message in HTML. Since there seems to be only one setting for choice of HTML viewer, a user should reasonably expect that clicking a link in ANY view mode would open the same browser. That also sounds like a TB bug. Lastly, none of this matters to me because I consider it totally insane to EVER click a link in an email, for security reasons. I always retype them into my browser or perhaps copy and paste them, but clicking can all too easily lead you to a web site of evil. Then again, it might be nice if TB had an option to provide a special warning if the link text doesn't match the link that will be followed and/or if the link will execute some script or macro. Then it MIGHT be arguably safe to click a plaintext link. -- Steven Vallière | tb 5.1.6.4 | mailto:[email protected] -- "If you didn't write it down, then it didn't happen." -Larry Zana ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.1.6.4 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
