Simon Willison’s Weblog

2nd September 2021

TIL Open external links in an Electron app using the system browser — For [Datasette.app](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app) I wanted to ensure that links to external URLs would [open in the system browser](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app/issues/34).

Posted 2nd September 2021 at 9:15 pm

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