diff --git a/src/help.c b/src/help.c
index c94bb37a..4b758ea6 100644
--- a/src/help.c
+++ b/src/help.c
@@ -361,38 +361,7 @@ static void Window_help_follow_link(const char * line)
     buffer[i++] = *link++;
   buffer[i] = '\0';
   GFX2_Log(GFX2_DEBUG, "WWW link found : \"%s\"\n", buffer);
-#if defined(WIN32)
-  /*HINSTANCE hInst = */ShellExecuteA(NULL, "open", buffer, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
-#elif defined(__macosx__)
-  {
-    OSStatus ret;
-    CFURLRef url = CFURLCreateWithBytes (
-        NULL,                   // allocator
-        (UInt8*)buffer,         // URLBytes
-        i,                      // length
-        kCFStringEncodingASCII, // encoding
-        NULL                    // baseURL
-      );
-    ret = LSOpenCFURLRef(url,0);
-    if (ret != noErr)
-      GFX2_Log(GFX2_ERROR, "LSOpenCFURLRef() returned %d\n", ret);
-    CFRelease(url);
-  }
-#elif defined(__linux__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__)
-  {
-    int ret;
-    char command[80]; // use the xdg-open command to open the url in the default browser
-    snprintf(command, sizeof(command), "xdg-open \"%s\"", buffer);
-    ret = system(command);
-    if (ret < 0)
-      GFX2_Log(GFX2_ERROR, "system('%s') FAILED\n", command);
-    else if (ret == 127)
-      GFX2_Log(GFX2_ERROR, "system() FAILED to execute shell\n");
-  }
-#else
-  // TODO : HAIKU, MINT, etc.
-  GFX2_Log(GFX2_WARNING, "URL open not supported yet on this system.\n");
-#endif
+  GFX2_OpenURL(buffer, i);
 }
 
 ///
diff --git a/src/osdep.c b/src/osdep.c
index 7983caed..ca5e8109 100644
--- a/src/osdep.c
+++ b/src/osdep.c
@@ -49,6 +49,43 @@ dword GFX2_GetTicks(void)
 #endif
 }
 
+void GFX2_OpenURL(const char * buffer, unsigned int len)
+{
+#if defined(WIN32)
+  (void)len;
+  /*HINSTANCE hInst = */ShellExecuteA(NULL, "open", buffer, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
+#elif defined(__macosx__)
+  OSStatus ret;
+
+  CFURLRef url = CFURLCreateWithBytes (
+      NULL,                   // allocator
+      (UInt8*)buffer,         // URLBytes
+      len,                    // length
+      kCFStringEncodingASCII, // encoding
+      NULL                    // baseURL
+    );
+  ret = LSOpenCFURLRef(url,0);
+  if (ret != noErr)
+    GFX2_Log(GFX2_ERROR, "LSOpenCFURLRef() returned %d\n", ret);
+  CFRelease(url);
+#elif defined(__linux__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__)
+  int ret;
+  char command[256]; // use the xdg-open command to open the url in the default browser
+  (void)len;
+
+  snprintf(command, sizeof(command), "xdg-open \"%s\"", buffer);
+  ret = system(command);
+  if (ret < 0)
+    GFX2_Log(GFX2_ERROR, "system('%s') FAILED\n", command);
+  else if (ret == 127)
+    GFX2_Log(GFX2_ERROR, "system() FAILED to execute shell\n");
+#else
+  // TODO : HAIKU, MINT, etc.
+  (void)len; (void)buffer;
+  GFX2_Log(GFX2_WARNING, "URL open not supported yet on this system.\n");
+#endif
+}
+
 #if defined(__macosx__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__SWITCH__)
   #if defined(__OpenBSD__)
   #include <sys/param.h>
diff --git a/src/osdep.h b/src/osdep.h
index a7de705a..7dbda127 100644
--- a/src/osdep.h
+++ b/src/osdep.h
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@
 /// Return a number of milliseconds
 dword GFX2_GetTicks(void);
 
+/**
+ * Open an URL in the system default browser
+ * @param url URL (ascii)
+ * @param len URL length in bytes
+ */
+void GFX2_OpenURL(const char * url, unsigned int len);
+
 #if defined (__MINT__)
 void Atari_Memory_free(unsigned long *stRam, unsigned long *ttRam);
 #else