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

[Benjamin Pasero <bpasero@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Christophe Cornu wrote:

> Hi Benjamin:
>  
Hi Christophe,

> 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.
>  
My users are all running SWT 3116, which is 3.1 M4. That is why GTK 1.2 does
not seem to be the problem in these cases.

> 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.
>  
Right, as 3.1 M4 is used I expected Mozilla 1.4 to 1.7 to work. Maybe 
the problems are more related to the used
Linux distributions.

> 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.
>  
Ok I will.

Thanks,
ben

> Chris 
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