F1 locks the editor completely

[Guppy]

Steps to reproduce

1. Make sure no instance of firefox is open
   
2. Press F1 (or select 'help contents' from the help menu )
   
3. Read help files
   
4. Return to editor that is now completely unresponsive
   
5. close firefox
   
6. editor is now again
   

Note: my default browser is chrome, if I start firefox before pressing F1 this error never happens. This is because the call "firefox <url>" hands off the url by the master firefox thread and exits gracefully, but if firefox wasn't running the call creates a master firefox thread.

 

Easy solution is to ask the system to background the task "firefox <url> &", even better solution would be to use the users default browser

[Josh]

Ah, I have seen this before. Thanks for pointing that out.