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

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

Hi,

There are already some requests in Bugzilla in this area. You can vote for
them.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79213 - Support Mozilla in
browser widget on Windows
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=72487 - Allow Firefox as a
browser widget
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=83065 - SWT.Browser should
allow embedding of alternative browsers if available

HTH,
Regards,
Csaba

Hendrik Maryns wrote:
> Horváth, Csaba uitte de volgende tekst op 2/06/2005 9:11:
>> 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).
> Thanks.  I hope they implement support for Firefox soon, both on Windows
> and Linux. Should I enter this as a enhancement request in bugzilla?
>
> H.