Quick search didn't show me what I'm looking for, so...

I know how to setup a web query, my question is whether Excel can be used as a stand-alone browser of sorts - right now, if you click a link that comes back as part of a web query, it launches Internet Explorer - can Excel be made to simply open that resulting page within Excel (as a new query, perhaps) - no IE?

Don't know if RSS would help in this regard, and if so, not sure how to get RSS feeds into Excel anyway, but am open to whatever works here. Thanks!