[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Browser widget on Linux and native crash

["Christophe Cornu" <christophe_cornu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Benjamin:

You might be referring to former 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77102#c6
Crashes used to happen frequently when users had an unsupported Mozilla 
GTK1.2 build on Linux. This no longer causes a crash starting with SWT 3.1 
M4.

SWT FAQ for Linux Browser is here:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/faq.html#browserlinux
Mozilla 1.7 requires SWT 3.1 M3 or later. It will not work in SWT 3.0. 
Upcoming (maintainance) SWT 3.0.2 will support Mozilla 1.7.

Mozilla.org has recently released 1.7.5 GTK2 build. See
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
Under "Mozilla 1.7.5",  Linux (x86) for GTK2 and Xft.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/contrib/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.5-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
(the other Linux builds are GTK1.2 builds and therefore will not work inside 
SWT).

Please open bug reports if you or your users find problems with this latest 
version.

Chris