There's a new package up called ExternalWebBrowser. James Robertson wrote the initiali versions of this (known as Browser-Assist). David Price and Michael Lucas-Smith broke it loose from some BottomFeeder dependencies. And I've continued to chisel away at it. Check out the version comment for 2 as well as the package comment for how to use it. I'd love to have someone use it and refine it for Windows and Linux, or even Mac. Remember if you do... Less is More.