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  • DIALOG won't open URLs with single or doubleclick

    From wasbit@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 7 06:46:40 2022
    It's probably Windows 10 and not Dialog as I have this set:
    Dialog Settings > General settings > Misc
    URLs execute on single click

    It used to work but then it stopped working.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Jz5h0p4N/Clipboard.jpg
    Now nothing happens no matter how many times I click on any URL in Dialog.

    It's probably in Windows though as I don't think there's anything else to change in Dialog, is there?

    Windows has a default URL handler but I don't know how to test it.
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    wasbit

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  • From Bernd Rose@21:1/5 to wasbit on Sat May 7 07:57:20 2022
    On Sat, 7th May 2022 06:46:40 +0200, wasbit wrote:

    It's probably Windows 10 and not Dialog as I have this set:
    Dialog Settings > General settings > Misc
    URLs execute on single click

    This is only implemented for text/plain view. Therefore, make sure that the links which failed on you were not links shown on the html view of Dialog.

    It used to work but then it stopped working.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Jz5h0p4N/Clipboard.jpg
    Now nothing happens no matter how many times I click on any URL in Dialog.

    It's probably in Windows though as I don't think there's anything else to change in Dialog, is there?

    Because InternetExplorer reaches EOL, Microsoft pushed Edge in the last
    couple of months. In conjunction with that, the registration of file type
    and protocol handlers has been diversified to a degree, that it became a
    real PITA to (re-)set them all correctly.

    Look under: Windows Settings -> Set Default App by Protocol.

    If the browser you want to open for your links did not register itself for
    the protocol in question, you need to do the changes in the registry. For reasons only known to Microsoft (= "security", which by MS rather means
    "impede competitors"), only pre-registered programs and apps from MS store
    are eligible for selection in the settings dialog...

    Windows has a default URL handler but I don't know how to test it.

    Open a command window and run the link through the start command. Taking
    your link above as an example:

    start https://i.postimg.cc/Jz5h0p4N/Clipboard.jpg

    HTH.
    Bernd

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  • From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to wasbit on Sat May 7 16:50:34 2022
    wasbit wrote:

    It's probably Windows 10 and not Dialog as I have this set:
    Dialog Settings > General settings > Misc
    URLs execute on single click

    It used to work but then it stopped working.
    https://i.postimg.cc/Jz5h0p4N/Clipboard.jpg
    Now nothing happens no matter how many times I click on any URL in Dialog.

    It's probably in Windows though as I don't think there's anything else to change in Dialog, is there?

    Windows has a default URL handler but I don't know how to test it.

    Single-click on URLs works for me; however, I do *not* have the
    following setting enabled:

    Open clicked URLs in new IE windows

    "Windows" doesn't say which edition, version, or feature update you are
    using. For Windows 10, changes were made to IE. Maybe you're using an
    earlier version of Windows, but we cannot tell from the vague "Windows".

    In Windows 10, not only did Internet Explorer get deprecated to get
    replaced by Edge (using the EdgeHTML rendering engine and Microsoft's
    Jscript script interpreter which got replaced with Edge-Chromium using
    Google's Blink rendering engine and V8 script interpreter), but
    Microsoft removed IE in Windows 11. IE might no longer be available in
    your unidentified version of "Windows".

    https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-future-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-10-is-in-microsoft-edge/
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode
    and
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Internet_Explorer
    "On May 19, 2021, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer will be
    no longer supported on June 15, 2022[a] and as part of transition, IE
    mode will be available on the new Microsoft Edge which allows launch
    older ActiveX controls and legacy websites until at least 2029.[8]
    Windows 11 removed Internet Explorer, although it was disabled and
    some of its files are still stored in Windows' Program Files folder. \
    Users that are trying to run iexplore.exe via Run command will be
    redirected to Microsoft Edge."

    Could be you no longer IE, or Edge or some other web browser is now the
    default HTTP[S] protocol handler. That there is an internal "IE mode"
    inside of Edge still requires you open Edge, not Internet Explorer.

    Disable the above option, and let the OS decide to which default web
    browser to which it passes the URL string.

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  • From wasbit@21:1/5 to Bernd Rose on Sun May 8 19:34:52 2022
    "Bernd Rose" <b.rose.tmpbox@arcor.de> wrote in message news:dsxcewqhtrgb$.dlg@b.rose.tmpbox.news.arcor.de...

    Look under: Windows Settings -> Set Default App by Protocol.

    The Windows settings solved it!
    It has nothing to do with Dialog.
    But I did uncheck the IE setting as per VanguardLH.
    Thanks.
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    Regards
    wasbit

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