zdt and Firefox Part II

I got a couple of responses to my Firefox question on the Eclipse newsgroups. Basically, Firefox needs to be explicitly compiled with embedding support to work correctly with the SWT Browser widget. By default the releases that you get from Mozilla.org don’t have this embedding support built in. Some linux distributions do compile Firefox with this support, but not all. Billy Biggs suggests looking to see if your /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox folder contains the file ‘libgtkembedmoz.so’. However it’s not a foolproof way to be sure. Anyway, this highlights the need for the zdt to handle systems that don’t have the right browser installed in an appropriate manner. (like not crash)

2 comments August 23rd, 2005