gnome_url_show() alternative

[Jeroen van Aart]

I have been looking through the reference docs for a while and other 
sources but didn't yet find a solution.

I was wondering if xfce has an alternative to the gnome_url_show() 
function in order to load a url with the user defined browser.

If not what other method could I use?

Thanks,
Jeroen

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