Help Window Web Browser

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 9:25 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Gomer Thomas <gomerthomas at cgomert.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> The GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide states that "You can open any web
>> site under this [the GnuCash Help Manual] window by clicking the Open
>> /Toolbar/ button and then typing in the URL." However, in my version of
>> GnuCash (2.6.10), there is no Open toolbar button in the GnuCash Help
>> Manual window. The only toolbar buttons are Hide, Previous, Next, Back,
>> Print, and Options (and the menu items under Options do not include
>> "Open"). What am I misunderstanding?
>> 
> 
> You didn't say what operating system you are using, but I suspect whoever
> wrote that was referring to (some previous version of) the Gnome yelp
> browser on a linux system.
> 
> In more recent versions of yelp (for several years), the Open options have
> been removed or hidden. Furthermore I just saw that clicking a web URL in
> the GnuCash documentation launched the default web browser (on this system,
> FireFox), probably to prevent folks from using yelp as a web browser.
> 
> So I am confirming your observation, at least in linux. The help browser
> may look and work differently in Windows and on a Mac, but I cannot verify
> that.

On Windows it's a normal help window (no browser capabilities at all) and on Mac it's the default browser. 

Regards,
John Ralls