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diff --git a/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java b/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
index b2f532f..2b8a4bd 100755
--- a/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer
- * Copyright (C) 2005 AM Waterhouse, J Procter, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 AM Waterhouse, J Procter, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ public class BrowserLauncher
   }
 
   /**
-   * Attempts to locate the default web browser on the local system.  Caches results so it
+   * Attempts to locate the default web browser on the local system.    s results so it
    * only locates the browser once for each use of this class per JVM instance.
    * @return The browser for the system.  Note that this may not be what you would consider
    *                        to be a standard web browser; instead, it's the application that gets called to
@@ -645,7 +645,6 @@ public class BrowserLauncher
             }
             catch (IllegalArgumentException iare)
             {
-              browser = browser;
               errorMessage = iare.getMessage();
 
               return null;
@@ -698,6 +697,15 @@ public class BrowserLauncher
   }
 
   /**
+   * used to ensure that browser is up-to-date after a configuration
+   * change (Unix DEFAULT_BROWSER property change).
+   */
+  public static void resetBrowser()
+  {
+    browser = null;
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Attempts to open the default web browser to the given URL.
    * @param url The URL to open
    * @throws IOException If the web browser could not be located or does not run