# How to find the default webbrowser on Windows and Mac?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-find-the-default-webbrowser-on-windows-and-mac/126573 "2025-03-05T10:47:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-find-the-default-webbrowser-on-windows-and-mac/126573/1 "2025-03-05T10:47:50Z")

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In the help menu of our app we do:

```julia
url = "https://albatross-kite-transport.github.io/VortexStepMethod.jl/dev"
run(`xdg-open $url`)

```

to open the default web browser with the given URL.

This works on Linux, but how can this be done on Windows and Mac?

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-find-the-default-webbrowser-on-windows-and-mac/126573/2 "2025-03-05T11:01:20Z")

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> **[GitHub - tpapp/DefaultApplication.jl: Julia package for opening a file with the default...](https://github.com/tpapp/DefaultApplication.jl)**
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> Julia package for opening a file with the default application determined by the OS.