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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 6/6] web--browse: look at the BROWSER env var
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:59:14 -0600
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Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> The BROWSER environment variables is used in Debian-based systems to set
> the user-preferred browser(s).

I _thought_ BROWSER was not Debian-specific, but I cannot find any
evidence of that online.  See:

 http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/
 http://www.dwheeler.com/browse/secure_browser.html

At least xdg-open implements a variant on it, and I had assumed
apps preceding xdg-utils did, too.