Thread 'Whenever I open the 'news' tab in boinc manager, my browser is opened instead at localhost'

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dwt

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Message 84822 - Posted: 18 Feb 2018, 10:34:22 UTC

And of course that localhost page is pointing to my mac os x server wiki server running on that same box.

There seems to be a bug involved.

Could be that Boinc Manager couldn't start its own service on localhost because the port was already used, maybe it silently switched to a different port but forgot to tell the GUI.

From the UI it looks like boinc should actually show those messages in the UI instead of opening a web browser - then the bug would be that it actually tries to open the browser instead of just showing the news.
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Richard Haselgrove
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Message 84823 - Posted: 18 Feb 2018, 10:42:06 UTC - in response to Message 84822.  

Which version of BOINC are you using, and which operating system? This sounds like a problem which was reported some months ago for Apple Mac, and fixed in the latest recommended v7.8.6 of BOINC.
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