Mac - navigateToURL opens default application for .html files instead of browser

On Mac I have Adobe AIR version <string>3.1.0.4880</string> and I have selected TextMate for .html file as default application. With this configuration when I call navigateToURL in my app to open browser, it opens TextMate instead of default browser.
Following is the simple code to open URL:
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
navigateToURL(urlRequest, "_blank");
Is this known issue? Any workaround for this?
Thanks,

Since you've remapped what your default response to .html files are, you can't use navigateToURL() or openWithDefaultApplication().
So it looks like you'll need to use the NativeProcess class:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/desktop/NativePro cess.html

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