Michael's screen shot got me to look at my registry, which had no entry for Vivaldi in that location, but my Win 7 machine did, so I exported that entry and installed it into my Win 8 machine, and voilá! Pegasus now shows the link to Vivaldi in the right-click menu (and opens Vivaldi when left-clicked) as advertised.

I suspect the problems are to be found within the Vivaldi installation (which is, after all, in Beta . . . maybe Alpha) and Windows 8.1. Lots of pieces here, plenty of opportunities to miss something.

All's well that ends well, and I can move on to the next problem now.

Thank you, gentlemen! (Isn't the internet great? Remember when tech support was phone calls and days of waiting for a floppy disk that didn't solve the problem?)

Best regards,

Mike 

Is there any way to choose a different browser to open a specific link? Like an "open with" option? I know I can copy the URL and paste it into a non-default browser, but I was just wondering.....

Even better, any way to have a specific website always open links in a specific browser?

thnx!

[quote user="philherz"]Is there any way to choose a different browser to open a specific link?[/quote]

If it's a HTML (formatted) message do a right click on the link and select the browser of your choice from the context menu - if using IERenderer only. BearHtml doesn't offer this option, and there's no such option in plain text messages either.

SUPER!!!  Thanks......

This was driving me crazy on my new Win 8 laptop, as the right-click on a link only shows Opera and Explorer, but on my Win 7 machine, also correctly shows Vivaldi. On Win 8 laptop, no Vivaldi. ("When opening a WWW hyperlink" setting points to Vivaldi.exe, but a click on a link opens the C:\PMAIL\Programs directory.) 

 When I change the IERenderer.ini setting for UseBearHtml=NO to UseBearHtml=YES, The link will correctly open in Vivaldi, but I have no other choices (indeed, no menu), and the performance suffers quite a bit.

 Is there any way to get Vivaldi on the menu without giving up IERenderer? (I suspect it may have to do with where Vivaldi installs . . . in C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Vivaldi)

Thanks to you and David, and for this forum.

 Best regards,

Mike 

[quote user="mikerocosm"]Is there any way to get Vivaldi on the menu without giving up IERenderer? (I suspect it may have to do with where Vivaldi installs . . . in C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Vivaldi) [/quote]

I have no idea what's going wrong: IERenderer reads the Registry (see below) for figuring out which commandline to use for a browser. IIRC a reinstall of the respective browser solved this in previous cases.

Just a minor correction here. Bearhtml does allow a right click on a link, that offers options on how to handle the link. The default is to use the browser defined in Pegasus Mail menu Tools/Options/Incoming Mail/Hhyperlinks. Bearhtml itself does not launch a browser

Martin