[Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> What is it that you particularly liked about the CHM help?  One thing it did
> well was the table of contents at the side, and the built-in search.  I
> would like to get those back, in the HTML help.  Is there anything else?
>

The main thing I miss is the speed. On my Vista system with IE8 it
seems to come up slower than the chm based help.

Has anyone tried it with a text-based browser such as lynx to see if
it runs faster that way?  Is there an option to specify which browser
to use for help?