Pharo Issue Tracker - FogBugz (Fall [Issue]20000) Crosscutting and Misc - HelpBrowser should open real browser when "WebBrowser" is loaded

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	Torsten Bergmann opened Case 20000: HelpBrowser should open real browser when "WebBrowser" is loaded and assigned it to Everyone: Bug in Crosscutting and Misc: 1. Pharo Image • You are subscribed to this case

In Pharo 6.0 Latest update: #60471 one can open a help browser and click on URL links.
When the links are clicked the URL is put into the clipboard and the user is informed
about it with a growl message. The user has to open a webbrowser manually and paste
the URL in.

This is cumbersome but necessary because in the default image there is no support for
a webbrowser built in.

Nonetheless we can do something to improve the situation:
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In 2016 I created a unified "WebBrowser" package for Pharo (see http://lists.pharo.org/pipermail/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org/2016-April/120723.html) that allows to open a web browser independent from OS

- Windows
- Max
- Unix/Linux flavors

It is stable and also available for Pharo 6 in catalog.

We should change CustomHelp(class)>>url: to use it when it is loaded so that a real browser opens.

When Pharo 6 is released and a newbee laments about not being able for the URLs to work
we can point him to load the "WebBrowser" package and he should be fine.

	Priority: 5 – Fix If Time		Status: Work Needed
	Assigned to: Everyone		Milestone: Later

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