Comment 25 for bug 315996

hi, I renamed the original launch_webbrowser.py back to the original name. Here is the result of directly following your request which shows that I have python 2.6 installed. The webbrowser opens with the correct page.
C:\Users\X>python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import webbrowser
>>> webbrowser.open("http://inkscape.org/doc/keys046.html")
True
>>> exit()
C:\Users\X>
When I changed to the Inkscape directory and rerun the commands this is the output. Notice that the python version is ever so slightly different than your version. Mine is 2.5 Sept 2006 but yours is 2.5.2 Apr 2007. The browser does open up with the correct page.
c:\Program Files\Inkscape047\Inkscape\python>python
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import webbrowser
>>> webbrowser.open("http://inkscape.org/doc/keys046.html")
True
>>>
The Inkscape menu help->keys & mouse reference does not open a browser window.