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launch-browser - starting the default browser with a given url

This module provides an interface to start a default browser for a given url.

Provided functions

(launch-browser url:string?) --> boolean

Starts a browser (or opens a new tab in a browser) using url. On Windows, it will be the default browser (using the windows shell). On Unix like systems, the environment variable 'DEFAULT_BROWSER' will be tried, before walking through a list of browsers: 'konqueror, firefox, epiphany, mozilla, opera, netscape'

Returns #t on success, #f otherwise.