X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Futil%2FBrowserLauncher.java;h=d912173e6334482b38e8515b31bc1599c723fae7;hb=3cc7159787bd31859f7bc27916e7ff854b895280;hp=6bac25b308c9dcb1e97b2d9058e1c042c32c73f3;hpb=efc31b4a8d5cee63555586804a2b79c06bdb5a14;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java b/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
index 6bac25b..d912173 100755
--- a/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/BrowserLauncher.java
@@ -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;
@@ -689,21 +688,20 @@ public class BrowserLauncher
 
       case OTHER:
       default:
-        browser = jalview.bin.Cache.applicationProperties.getProperty(
-            "jalview.browser");
-
-        if (browser == null)
-        {
-          // hope firefox exists :-/
-          browser = "firefox";
-        }
+        browser = jalview.bin.Cache.getDefault("DEFAULT_BROWSER", "firefox");
 
         break;
     }
 
     return browser;
   }
-
+  /**
+   * 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