open-browser

Open a web browser from Haskell

https://github.com/mpilgrem/open-browser

Version on this page:0.3.0.1
LTS Haskell 24.2:0.4.0.0
Stackage Nightly 2025-07-30:0.4.0.0
Latest on Hackage:0.4.0.0

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by rightfold
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:open-browser-0.3.0.1@sha256:1a2ead3c9c4118ffebe493afa2183d9d65f55f256c3a62531b0dd198b64fe149,2013

Module documentation for 0.3.0.1

Used by 2 packages in nightly-2025-04-01(full list with versions):
LambdaHack, open-browser

open-browser

A Haskell library that provides the function openBrowser that, given a URL or other item associated with a web browser, yields an IO action that seeks to open the item in the user’s preferred web browser.

Supported operating systems are Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD.

Originally developed by rightfold.

Changes

Changelog for open-browser

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to the Haskell Package Versioning Policy.

0.3.0.1 - 2025-03-17

  • On Windows, remove unnecessary dependency on process.
  • Improve Haddock documentation.

0.3.0.0 - 2025-03-16

  • Make operating system-related choices at compilation. The function will never succeed on unsupported operating systems, rather than than throwing an ErrorCall exception.
  • Drop support for 32-bit Windows.

0.2.1.1 - 2025-03-15

  • Add CHANGELOG.md and README.md.
  • Add stack.yaml and stack.yaml.lock to package description.
  • Example executable renamed open-browser-example (from example).
  • The building of the example executable now requires Cabal flag example (default: false).
  • URL in example executable updated to https://www.haskell.org/.

0.2.1.0 - 2016-01-05

  • As released by rightfold on Hackage. This entry and prior change log is reconstructed.
  • Support GHC versions before GHC 8.0.
  • Add support for 32-bit Windows.

0.2.0.0 - 2015-07-31

  • Remote deprecated Network.Browser.openBrowser.

0.1.4.0 - 2015-07-30

  • On Linux, silence xdg-open.

0.1.3.0 - 2015-07-27

  • Add support for BSD and Windows.

0.1.2.0 - 2015-07-27

  • Web.Browser.openBrowser added and Network.Browser.openBrowser deprecated.

0.1.1.0 - 2015-07-27

  • Add support for Linux.

0.1.0.0 - 2015-07-25

  • Initial version. Only OS X supported.