bpo-35308: Fix regression where BROWSER env var is not respected. (GH-10693)
Regression introduced in e3ce695 and 25b804a, where the old parameter
update_tryorder to _synthesize was first ignored, then given the opposite
value in the attempt to fix bpo-31014.
diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py
index 1e27c83..82bff83 100755
--- a/Lib/webbrowser.py
+++ b/Lib/webbrowser.py
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
return open(url, 2)
-def _synthesize(browser, *, preferred=True):
+def _synthesize(browser, *, preferred=False):
"""Attempt to synthesize a controller base on existing controllers.
This is useful to create a controller when a user specifies a path to
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@
# and prepend to _tryorder
for cmdline in userchoices:
if cmdline != '':
- cmd = _synthesize(cmdline, preferred=False)
+ cmd = _synthesize(cmdline, preferred=True)
if cmd[1] is None:
register(cmdline, None, GenericBrowser(cmdline), preferred=True)