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gh-102520: Document browser fallback behavior on Windows #103212

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Doscument browser fallback behaviour on Windows
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Expand Up @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ The following functions are defined:
(note that under many window managers this will occur regardless of the
setting of this variable).

On Windows, webbrowser displays *url* in the default browser via :func:`os.startfile`.
If no default is set, webbrowser searches for any available supported browsers
in the user's PATH environment variable. If one is found, it displays *url*.
Otherwise, webbrowser falls back to display *url* in Microsoft Edge.

Note that on some platforms, trying to open a filename using this function,
may work and start the operating system's associated program. However, this
is neither supported nor portable.
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