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Fr0gOfWar
Super Villains
Fraternity.
#1 - 2012-11-22 13:17:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Fr0gOfWar
Give users the option to "open url in external browser". Lets face it, the in game browser sucks.
Mirel Dystoph
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-11-22 13:55:43 UTC
Fr0gOfWar wrote:
Give users the option to "open url in external browser". Lets face it, the in game browser sucks.

Yea, brilliant idea.
Get this done CCP.

"Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise." 
TehCloud
Guardians of the Dodixie
#3 - 2012-11-22 15:41:11 UTC
CTRL-C, Alt-Tab, CTRL-V

Come on guys, it's not that much work to do it. Why waste resources on something like that.
Let the Devs work on stuff that actually matters, please.

My Condor costs less than that module!
RazielZian
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-11-22 16:51:49 UTC
TehCloud wrote:
CTRL-C, Alt-Tab, CTRL-V

Come on guys, it's not that much work to do it. Why waste resources on something like that.
Let the Devs work on stuff that actually matters, please.


Sure in theory, if your not busy have 0 server lag and are not in a fight and need access to immediate intel or tools.

Hell I dual screen so I don't have to alt tab to access my external browser, but im still taking my attention away from the fight to access the tools, where as an option to open external browser from ingame would remove this giving me access to my tools without taking my attention away from the combat more than absolutly necessary.

Times change, evolve or die quietly.
Crimeo Khamsi
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2012-11-22 17:06:03 UTC
Quote:

Sure in theory, if your not busy have 0 server lag and are not in a fight and need access to immediate intel or tools.

If all of that is true, then youre committing suicide by opening an external browser anyway, since that would still minimize your EVE game and get you ganked...

I see no useful purpose to this. In game browser is fast an convenient and can be made into an unobtrusive window. External browser is better but requires alt-tab, but thats the same thing that would happen if you had it open automatically, so who cares?
Darkblad
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-01-12 09:11:10 UTC
As there already are ingame links that open in your external browser (View my Bug Reports), just add an entry in the right click menu of links.

Current:

Open Link in new Tab
Open

Proposal:

Open
Open Link in new Tab
Open Link in external Browser

Default should be open in IGB (or add an option in the settings menu of the IGB)

NPE – ISD – RIP
Mag's
Azn Empire
#7 - 2013-01-12 09:34:15 UTC
I've copied all URLs as TehCloud suggested, from day one. I don't trust any browser, I have no real control over.

Destination SkillQueue:- It's like assuming the Lions will ignore you in the Savannah, if you're small, fat and look helpless.
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-01-12 12:08:59 UTC
Crimeo Khamsi wrote:
Quote:

Sure in theory, if your not busy have 0 server lag and are not in a fight and need access to immediate intel or tools.

If all of that is true, then youre committing suicide by opening an external browser anyway, since that would still minimize your EVE game and get you ganked...

I see no useful purpose to this. In game browser is fast an convenient and can be made into an unobtrusive window. External browser is better but requires alt-tab, but thats the same thing that would happen if you had it open automatically, so who cares?

you either haven't played eve multi screen before. or have been doing it wrong all this time. you can set the browser to one screen, eve to the other screen, and with the right settings, you can right click > open in OOG browser > click again without moving mouse. that will open the link in the out of game browser, leave eve up, and reselect eve so you don't die.
The Magez
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-01-12 14:38:05 UTC
Many times i have wondered about the same thing, mostly on everything that needs flash. Like obviously youtube. Maybe to open the link in OOG browser in the background so it doesnt pop up all of a sudden. OR give you a warning ingame that an external browser is going to pop up and the client is going to go background.