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Update webbrowser to use Edge as fallback instead of IE #102690

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DBJim opened this issue Mar 14, 2023 · 1 comment
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Update webbrowser to use Edge as fallback instead of IE #102690

DBJim opened this issue Mar 14, 2023 · 1 comment
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webbrowser.py currently uses Internet Explorer as the fallback browser on Windows, if the user has no default browser, and no user-installed browsers are detected. I propose to update this code to use Microsoft Edge as the fallback instead.

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-IE is deprecated and no longer functional on most Windows installations today.
-Any Windows installation with current Python has had Microsoft Edge installed since release.
-It seems that certain enterprise policies will block the user from directly invoking IE (See this Github issue).
-While iexplore.exe currently redirects to Edge when executed, this PR makes the fallback behavior transparent.

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https://discuss.python.org/t/update-webbrowser-py-to-use-microsoft-edge-as-fallback-instead-of-ie/24791

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@merwok merwok changed the title Update webbrowser.py to use Edge as fallback instead of IE Update webbrowser to use Edge as fallback instead of IE Mar 14, 2023
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merwok commented Mar 16, 2023

Thanks!

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carljm added a commit to carljm/cpython that referenced this issue Mar 17, 2023
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Merge branch 'main' into inlinecomp2
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* main: (34 commits)
  pythongh-102701: Fix overflow in dictobject.c (pythonGH-102750)
  pythonGH-78530: add support for generators in `asyncio.wait` (python#102761)
  Increase stack reserve size for Windows debug builds to avoid test crashes (pythonGH-102764)
  pythongh-102755: Add PyErr_DisplayException(exc) (python#102756)
  Fix outdated note about 'int' rounding or truncating (python#102736)
  pythongh-102192: Replace PyErr_Fetch/Restore etc by more efficient alternatives (python#102760)
  pythongh-99726: Improves correctness of stat results for Windows, and uses faster API when available (pythonGH-102149)
  pythongh-102192: remove redundant exception fields from ssl module socket (python#102466)
  pythongh-102192: Replace PyErr_Fetch/Restore etc by more efficient alternatives (python#102743)
  pythongh-102737: Un-ignore ceval.c in the CI globals check (pythongh-102745)
  pythonGH-102748: remove legacy support for generator based coroutines from `asyncio.iscoroutine` (python#102749)
  pythongh-102721: Improve coverage of `_collections_abc._CallableGenericAlias` (python#102722)
  pythonGH-102653: Make recipe docstring show the correct distribution (python#102742)
  Add comments to `{typing,_collections_abc}._type_repr` about each other (python#102752)
  pythongh-102594: PyErr_SetObject adds note to exception raised on normalization error (python#102675)
  pythongh-94440: Fix issue of ProcessPoolExecutor shutdown hanging (python#94468)
  pythonGH-100112:  avoid using iterable coroutines in asyncio internally (python#100128)
  pythongh-102690: Use Edge as fallback in webbrowser instead of IE (python#102691)
  pythongh-102660: Fix Refleaks in import.c (python#102744)
  pythongh-102738: remove from cases generator the code related to register instructions (python#102739)
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