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In Eclipse, is it possible to use Firefox as Eclipse's internal Web browser instead of Internet Explorer.
I am a Web developer using Eclipse in Windows.
Thanks!
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The Internal Web Browser view allows you to surf the internet from within the Eclipse Workbench Window. To activate the Internal Web Browser view click on the Window and select Show View → Other. In the filter text box of the Show View dialog box enter browser . From the tree select Internal Web Browser and click OK.
Go to your eclipse Window -> Preferences -> General -> Web Browser and you can select your default Web Browser here and if you want to add some other web browser then click on New button and put and and then click on OK and then after your can see your newly added browser in "External web browser" section.
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Chosen solutionFirefox does not use Internet Explorer to access the internet, but some of the components of Windows that Firefox needs, such as the networking components, might be intertwined with IE in such a way that IE updates will affect them.
The SWT Browser widget that is uesd by the internal web browser chooses the platform default for its web rendering technology. So for Windows that is the MSHTML COM component (IE renderer). For Linux that is Mozilla (Webkit for 3.7 is available) and on Mac, WebKit(Safari). However, there are third party plugins like MyEclipse that do embed a mozilla runtime (XULRunner) that do use the Mozilla (Gecko) renderer for a browser.
So to answer your question there is no way to use Firefox as internal web browser on windows, however, you can install 3rd-party plugins for Eclipse (MyEclipse, JBoss tools, etc) that embed Xulrunner binaries that will allow for embedding mozilla renderer as the technology used by an internal Eclipse browser. Note, this may require that use the 3rd-party web browser widget instead of the standard eclipse platform one, but those 3rd party tools usually provide a toolbar action, etc.
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