[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse uses IE internally??

["Horváth, Csaba" <hcs33@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

>From SWT 3.0, there is a Browser widget which implementation is platform
dependent. It uses IE rendering engine on Windows. I think Eclipse uses this
widget to show html pages internally.

See
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/faq.html#browserplatforms
for more information (url may wrap).

HTH,
Regards,
Csaba

Hendrik Maryns wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Did I see this right: when opening a website in Eclipse (both 3.0.2 and
> latest 3.1), it opens a browser inside, but this is IE?  I assume this
> as it says "Add to Favorites", amongst others.  I very much don't want
> to use IE, and have Firefox 1.0.4 installed.  Why doesn't Eclipse use my
> default browser?
>
> Is this a known 'bug'?
>
> Thanks, H.