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Added in 1.0.0

Launches an external web browser and navigates to the URL provided.

LaunchURL(url)

Arguments

url

string - URL of the website to open. Seems to only accept some URLs, works with base URL of the world of warcraft websites (wow-europe.com, worldofwarcraft.com, etc).

Example

LaunchURL("http://www.worldofwarcraft.com")

Patch changes

Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Re-added.
Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28): Removed. This still exists inside the login lua environment, however not in the addon environment.
Patch 1.0.0 (2004-10-08): Added.