User1844282159 posted
I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but I tried the below code and was able to force a link from my IE browser to open in FireFox.
I got the original source from here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/185423/how-can-i-open-a-link-in-the-default-web-browser-from-an-hta
I slightly amended the source to specifically tell the shell command to open the url in Firefox.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>HTA Test</title>
<hta:application applicationname="HTA Test" scroll="yes" singleinstance="yes">
<script type="text/javascript">
function openURL()
{
var shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
shell.run("Firefox http://www.google.com");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="openURL()" value="Open Google in Firefox">
</body>
</html>
I'm sure you can replace the browser name with a variable or you can even generate the Javascript in code-behind with the required values and inject it through the RegisterStartupScript method of the ClientScriptManager.
More information on the use of the HTA:Application Object:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536495%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
Hope this helped.
Kind Regards,
Francois
