How to make SWT Browser control use Mozilla instead of IE on Windows?

Question

I want to make SWT use Firefox on all platforms I run my app on. But SWT of course used IE on Windows by default. Any idea how to make SWT use Mozilla on windows. I know that I need to have XULRunner installed on the machine.

Answer 1

Funny you've asked - I just needed the same for our project.

1. Go to ATF site (http://wiki.eclipse.org/ATF/Installing) - there's how to d/l XUL Runner from Zend site.
2. This code will let you run the browser without registering the XULRunner:

Code:

Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle("org.mozilla.xulrunner"); //$NON-NLS-1$
if (bundle != null) 
{
    URL resourceUrl = bundle.getResource("xulrunner"); //$NON-NLS-1$
    if (resourceUrl != null) {
        try {
            URL fileUrl = FileLocator.toFileURL(resourceUrl);
            File file = new File(fileUrl.toURI());
            System.setProperty("org.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath",file.getAbsolutePath()); //$NON-NLS-1$
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // log the exception
        } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
            // log the exception
        }
    }
}

More details here: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#howusemozilla

Note: my code is slightly different from FAQ (different plugin ID) - i works for me this way.