It's probably Windows 10 and not Dialog as I have this set:
Dialog Settings > General settings > Misc
URLs execute on single click

It used to work but then it stopped working.
https://i.postimg.cc/Jz5h0p4N/Clipboard.jpg
Now nothing happens no matter how many times I click on any URL in Dialog.

It's probably in Windows though as I don't think there's anything else to
change in Dialog, is there?

Windows has a default URL handler but I don't know how to test it.
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wasbit

On Sat, 7th May 2022 06:46:40 +0200, wasbit wrote:

> It's probably Windows 10 and not Dialog as I have this set:
> Dialog Settings > General settings > Misc
> URLs execute on single click

This is only implemented for text/plain view. Therefore, make sure that the
links which failed on you were not links shown on the html view of Dialog.

> It used to work but then it stopped working.
> https://i.postimg.cc/Jz5h0p4N/Clipboard.jpg
> Now nothing happens no matter how many times I click on any URL in Dialog.
>
> It's probably in Windows though as I don't think there's anything else to
> change in Dialog, is there?

Because InternetExplorer reaches EOL, Microsoft pushed Edge in the last
couple of months. In conjunction with that, the registration of file type
and protocol handlers has been diversified to a degree, that it became a
real PITA to (re-)set them all correctly.

Look under: Windows Settings -> Set Default App by Protocol.

If the browser you want to open for your links did not register itself for
the protocol in question, you need to do the changes in the registry. For
reasons only known to Microsoft (= "security", which by MS rather means
"impede competitors"), only pre-registered programs and apps from MS store
are eligible for selection in the settings dialog...
> Windows has a default URL handler but I don't know how to test it.

Open a command window and run the link through the start command. Taking
your link above as an example:

start https://i.postimg.cc/Jz5h0p4N/Clipboard.jpg

HTH.
Bernd

wasbit wrote:

> It's probably Windows 10 and not Dialog as I have this set:
> Dialog Settings > General settings > Misc
> URLs execute on single click
>
> It used to work but then it stopped working.
> https://i.postimg.cc/Jz5h0p4N/Clipboard.jpg
> Now nothing happens no matter how many times I click on any URL in Dialog.
>
> It's probably in Windows though as I don't think there's anything else to
> change in Dialog, is there?
>
> Windows has a default URL handler but I don't know how to test it.

Single-click on URLs works for me; however, I do *not* have the
following setting enabled:

Open clicked URLs in new IE windows

"Windows" doesn't say which edition, version, or feature update you are
using. For Windows 10, changes were made to IE. Maybe you're using an
earlier version of Windows, but we cannot tell from the vague "Windows".

In Windows 10, not only did Internet Explorer get deprecated to get
replaced by Edge (using the EdgeHTML rendering engine and Microsoft's
Jscript script interpreter which got replaced with Edge-Chromium using
Google's Blink rendering engine and V8 script interpreter), but
Microsoft removed IE in Windows 11. IE might no longer be available in
your unidentified version of "Windows".

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-future-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-10-is-in-microsoft-edge/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Internet_Explorer
"On May 19, 2021, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer will be
no longer supported on June 15, 2022[a] and as part of transition, IE
mode will be available on the new Microsoft Edge which allows launch
older ActiveX controls and legacy websites until at least 2029.[8]
Windows 11 removed Internet Explorer, although it was disabled and
some of its files are still stored in Windows' Program Files folder. \
Users that are trying to run iexplore.exe via Run command will be
redirected to Microsoft Edge."

Could be you no longer IE, or Edge or some other web browser is now the
default HTTP[S] protocol handler. That there is an internal "IE mode"
inside of Edge still requires you open Edge, not Internet Explorer.

Disable the above option, and let the OS decide to which default web
browser to which it passes the URL string.

"Bernd Rose" <b.rose.tmpbox@arcor.de> wrote in message
news:dsxcewqhtrgb$.dlg@b.rose.tmpbox.news.arcor.de...

> Look under: Windows Settings -> Set Default App by Protocol.

The Windows settings solved it!
It has nothing to do with Dialog.
But I did uncheck the IE setting as per VanguardLH.
Thanks.
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wasbit