fix: open in default browser with external crate

Author: abose

src-tauri/Cargo.lock

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ once_cell = "1.19.0"
 percent-encoding = "2.3"
 regex = "1.10.3"
 clipboard-files = "0.1.1"
+webbrowser = "0.8.12"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 tauri = { version = "1.5.4", features = [ "cli", "api-all", "updater", "devtools", "linux-protocol-headers"] }
 winapi = { version = "0.3", features = ["fileapi"] }

src-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ windows_subsystem = "windows"
 )]
 use std::env;
 
+use webbrowser;
+
 use tauri::{Manager};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
@@ -179,6 +181,16 @@ fn zoom_window(window: tauri::Window, scale_factor: f64) {
       });
 }
 
+#[tauri::command]
+fn open_url_in_browser(url: String) -> Result<(), String> {
+    // Attempt to open the URL in the default web browser
+    if webbrowser::open(&url).is_ok() {
+        Ok(())
+    } else {
+        Err("Failed to open URL in the browser".into())
+    }
+}
+
 fn process_window_event(event: &GlobalWindowEvent) {
     if let tauri::WindowEvent::CloseRequested { .. } = event.event() {
         // this does nothing and is here if in future you need to persist something on window close.
@@ -291,7 +303,7 @@ fn main() {
         .invoke_handler(tauri::generate_handler![
             get_mac_deep_link_requests,
             toggle_devtools, console_log, console_error, _get_commandline_args, get_current_working_dir,
-            _get_window_labels,
+            _get_window_labels, open_url_in_browser,
             _get_windows_drives, _rename_path, show_in_folder, zoom_window, _get_clipboard_files])
         .setup(|app| {
             init::init_app(app);