Question

I am using PyQt4’s QTextBroswer to display a html link.

Whenever users click on the link, a browser will be used to open the internet page.

My question is, is there a way to set so that our own prefered browser is used to open the url page instead of the preset one?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

QTextBrowser provides an actual browser. If you want to open a document in the user’s desktop environment-specified browser, then you’d use QDesktopServices::openUrl.

You can use QProcess to start random programs:

QObject *parent;
...
QString program = "/path/to/browser";
QStringList arguments;
arguments << "--your-browser-url-option-if-any" << "http://www.example.com";

QProcess *myProcess = new QProcess(parent);
myProcess->start(program, arguments);