Unable to start the default browser from Java program, 1

[tom62]

In my Java 5 program that runs on Windows PC's, I use the following method to start the default browser and go to a website:

public static void gotoWebsite(String webpage) throws Exception {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler

http://"

+ webpage);
p.waitFor();
}

This worked very fine until I installed Firefox on my PC as default browser. When it is now executed nothing seems to happen. It doesn't start the Firefox browser, nor it returns any error which could tell me why the default browser is not started.

I googled around to check why my code doesn't work for Firefox browsers, but so far I haven't found anything. How can I get my code to work again (without deinstalling Firefox ofcourse)?

 

[tom62]

I've found it! Even when I told Firefox to be my default browsers it didn't set itself up correctly as being the default browser.

For more details and how to fix it, see this article:

http://support.mozilla.com/nl/kb/setting+Firefox+as+the+default+browser+does+not+work