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[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: XPCOM Error on starting Eclipse
On 9/18/2008 10:56 AM, Setya wrote: 
Hi,

I start Eclipse on Linux Fedora 9 and got the following error:

org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error -2147467262
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.error(Mozilla.java:1597)



I've googled for the error and found a posting that suggests to copy
swt.jar to ext folder of JRE, but the problem persists.

This is really a showstopper so any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is a problem with the version of XULRunner that you have. See the comments to this blog post (not the post itself, but the comments); you can just update your eclipse.ini to solve the problem.
<http://sandakith.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/eclipse-ganymede-startup-problem-in-ubuntu-orgeclipseswtswterror-xpcom-erro/>

Also see: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-mozillateam-bugs/2008-June/044557.html>

By the way, it is generally a bad idea to add things arbitrarily to the JRE ext/ directory, as they will be on the classpath of EVERY Java app that runs.

Hope this helps,
	Eric