MATLAB: Do I receive an error when I try to run a MATLAB demo in MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3)

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When I try to start a MATLAB demo, I receive the following error message:

 <Student Version>: Error Dialog
          Could not load HTML file into Web browser. Please make sure that you have a Web browser properly installed on your system.

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This issue is due to the incorrect installation of the web browser.

Please find the installation directions for your web browser of choice (e.g., Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.) and reinstall your web browser, making sure that HTML-files are associated with that web browser.

On Windows, this error message can also be the result of a Windows path issue. Make sure that 'cmd.exe' is available on the Windows path.

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This enhancement has been incorporated in Release 2008b (R2008b). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

This issue appears to occur because the required Flash plug-ins are not installed/configured for the MATLAB Web browser.

Since the MATLAB Web browser has an underlying Mozilla engine, it can use the underlying plug-ins for Firefox and associate these plug-ins with the system's Mozilla engine.

Hence, one possible workaround is to install Mozilla Firefox and ensure that the same demo videos are running as expected (if plug-ins are not installed/configured, Firefox will prompt you to do so). In most cases, this should resolve the issue.

Note: A useful way of verifying whether you have the Flash plug-in installed for Firefox is by looking for the files NPSWF32.dll and flashplayer.xpt in the \Mozilla Firefox\plugins directory.

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The ability to import data from a URL is not available in MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3).

To work around this issue, use URLWRITE to save the file locally, and then import it using data import functions. For example,

urlwrite(myURL,myFileName);
M=importdata(myFileName);

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