#5935: mention that BROWSER is looked for in PATH.
diff --git a/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst b/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst
index af8b637..b50bdbe 100644
--- a/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
of browsers to try in order. When the value of a list part contains the string
``%s``, then it is interpreted as a literal browser command line to be used
with the argument URL substituted for ``%s``; if the part does not contain
-``%s``, it is simply interpreted as the name of the browser to launch.
+``%s``, it is simply interpreted as the name of the browser to launch. [1]_
For non-Unix platforms, or when a remote browser is available on Unix, the
controlling process will not wait for the user to finish with the browser, but
@@ -201,3 +201,8 @@
.. versionadded:: 2.5
+
+.. rubric:: Footnotes
+
+.. [1] Executables named here without a full path will be searched in the
+ directories given in the :envvar:`PATH` environment variable.