innocuous error pop-ups on Help connections to WRI web sites
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- Subject: [mg78964] innocuous error pop-ups on Help connections to WRI web sites
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:17:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
- Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu
On the 6.0 Help menu, there are items "Wolfram Website..." and "Demonstrations..." that open www.wolfram.com and demonstrations.wolfram.com, respectively, in a web browser. Under Windows (XP), my default browser is Firefox (2.0.0.4) and it loads those URLs when I select those menu items. However, if Firefox is not open when I select the menu items, before it opens and loads the pages, Mathematica produces a pop-up error window with text The front end failed to execute the command http://www.wolfram.com/products/field_specific.html and The front end failed to execute the command http://demonstrations.wolfram.com respectively. Since the URLs do load, this behavior is harmless -- except that it causes the annoyance of having to do an extra step of clicking the OK button on the Mathematica error window to close it. Has anybody else had this experience with Firefox? With another browser? -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305