diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a1dba5d89..f939011e1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2002-08-18  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
+	* lib/mc.ext.in: Try links before lynx.  Force full path when
+	invoking X11 browsers - it breaks VFS, but VFS support in mc.ext
+	is already broken if the program starts in background.  Add a
+	comment discouraging taking this code as example.
+
 	* doc/mc.1.in (Controlling Midnight Commander): Remove, it's
 	obsolete.
 	* doc/es/mc.1.in: Likewise.
diff --git a/lib/mc.ext.in b/lib/mc.ext.in
index 2d9878cf9..fa8149cb6 100644
--- a/lib/mc.ext.in
+++ b/lib/mc.ext.in
@@ -280,11 +280,13 @@ type/^PDF
 	#Open=(ghostview %f &)
 	View=%view{ascii} pdftotext %f -
 
+# The following code very ugly and should not be taken as example.
+# It should be cleaned up when the new format of mc.ext is developed.
+
 # html
 regex/\.([Hh]tml?|HTML?)$
-	#Open=if echo "%d/%p" | grep ^ftp; then $viewer %d/%p; else $viewer file:%p; fi
-	Open=if test -n "@X11_WWW@" && test -n "$DISPLAY"; then echo @X11_WWW@ %f; (@X11_WWW@ %f &) >/dev/null 2>&1; else lynx -force_html %f; fi
-	View=%view{ascii} lynx -dump -force_html %f
+	Open=if test -n "@X11_WWW@" && test -n "$DISPLAY"; then (@X11_WWW@ file://%d/%p &) >/dev/null 2>&1; else links %f || lynx -force_html %f; fi
+	View=%view{ascii} links -dump %f || lynx -dump -force_html %f
 
 # StarOffice and OpenOffice
 shell/.sdw