User`s guide

R2009a
16-2
Desktop Tools and Development Environment
Desktop New Features Video
For an overview of the major new features in the MATLAB Desktop Tools and
Development Environment area, watch this video demo. Another way to access the demo
is by selecting the Demos tab in the Help browser, and then selecting MATLAB > New
Features in Version 7.8.
Startup and Shutdown
The matlab command to start MATLAB now supports the -singleCompThread
option on all platforms. When you specify this option, you limit MATLAB to a single
computational thread. By default, if you do not specify this option, MATLAB makes use
of the multithreading capabilities of the computer on which it is running.
Desktop
New features and changes introduced in Version 7.8 (R2009a) are:
• “New System Browser Preference Instead of docopt.m for MATLAB on UNIX
Platforms” on page 16-2
• “Test Proxy Settings for Accessing the Internet from MATLAB” on page 16-3
New System Browser Preference Instead of docopt.m for MATLAB on UNIX Platforms
On UNIX platforms (except Apple Macintosh), MATLAB now uses the Mozilla
®
Firefox
®
browser by default to display documents or Web sites in a system browser. If you want
MATLAB to use a different system browser, use the new System Web browser setting
in Web preferences to specify it. In addition, the web function with the –browser option
now determines the system browser to use from the preference. For more information,
click the Help button in the Web preference pane, or see Web Preferences.
Compatibility Considerations
In previous versions, the default system browser on UNIX platforms was Netscape
Navigator
®
; it is now Firefox. If you do not have Firefox on your system, when MATLAB