Use java.awt.Desktop instead of trying (and failing) to invoke
some kind of browser ourselves.

	-mi

--- src/free/util/BrowserControl.java	2007-03-04 19:55:00.000000000 -0500
+++ src/free/util/BrowserControl.java	2025-12-15 21:39:55.153096000 -0500
@@ -31,4 +31,6 @@
 import java.io.InputStream; 
 import java.io.InterruptedIOException;
+import java.awt.Desktop;
+import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.Properties;
@@ -81,63 +82,8 @@
       if (appletContext != null){ // Running in an applet.
         appletContext.showDocument(new URL(url), "_blank");
+      } else {
+        Desktop.getDesktop().browse(new URI(url));
       }
-      else if (PlatformUtils.isWindows()){
-        if (url.endsWith(".html")||url.endsWith(".htm")){
-
-          // url-encode the last character because windows refuses to display URLs
-          // ending with ".html" or ".htm", but works fine
-          // for ".htm%6c" or ".ht%6d"
-          int lastChar = url.charAt(url.length()  -1);
-          url = url.substring(0, url.length() - 1) + "%" + Integer.toHexString(lastChar);
-        }
-        String cmd = "rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "+url;
-        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd); 
-      }
-      else if (PlatformUtils.isMacOSX()){
-        String [] commandLine = new String[]{"open", url};
-        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commandLine);
-      }
-      else if (PlatformUtils.isMacOS()){
-        String [] commandLine = new String[]{"netscape", url}; 
-        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commandLine); 
-      }
-      else{
-        synchronized(BrowserControl.class){
-          if (environment == null){
-            environment = new Properties();
-            try{
-              Process env = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("env");
-              InputStream in = env.getInputStream();
-              try{
-                environment.load(in);
-              } finally{
-                  in.close();
-                }
-            } catch (IOException e){e.printStackTrace();}
-          }
-        }
-
-        String browsers = environment.getProperty("BROWSER");
-        if ((browsers == null) || ("".equals(browsers))){
-          return tryMozilla(url);
-        }
-
-        StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(browsers, ":");
-        if (!tokenizer.hasMoreTokens())
-          return false;
-        
-        String browser = tokenizer.nextToken();
-        int percentPercentIndex;
-        while ((percentPercentIndex = browser.indexOf("%%")) != -1)
-          browser = browser.substring(0, percentPercentIndex)+"%"+browser.substring(percentPercentIndex+3);
-        int urlIndex = browser.indexOf("%s");
-        String commandline;
-        if (urlIndex != -1)
-          commandline = browser.substring(0, urlIndex)+url+browser.substring(urlIndex+2);
-        else
-          commandline = browser+" "+url;
-        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commandline);
-      }
-    } catch (IOException e){
+    } catch (Exception e){
         return false;
       }