How to make SWT Browser control use Mozilla instead of IE on Windows?

Question

I want to make SWT use mozilla on all platforms I run my app on. But SWT of course used IE on Windows by default. Any idea how to make SWT use Mozilla on windows. I know that I need to have XULRunner installed on the machine.

Answer 1

Sorry, I just found the answer. 1- You need to have XULRunner registered on your machine. To do so, just unpack it and then execute this command in the command shell "xulrunner.exe --register-global". 2- Pass the SWT.MOZILLA style to Browser constructor: Browser browser = new Browser(shell, SWT.MOZILLA);

Answer 2

Funny you've asked - I just needed the same for our project.

1. Go to ATF site (http://wiki.eclipse.org/ATF/Installing) - there's how to d/l XUL Runner from Zend site.
2. This code will let you run the browser without registering the XULRunner: Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle("org.mozilla.xulrunner"); //$NON-NLS-1$ if (bundle != null) { URL resourceUrl = bundle.getResource("xulrunner"); //$NON-NLS-1$ if (resourceUrl != null) { try { URL fileUrl = FileLocator.toFileURL(resourceUrl); File file = new File(fileUrl.toURI()); System.setProperty("org.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath",file.getAbsolutePath()); //$NON-NLS-1$ } catch (IOException e) { // log the exception } catch (URISyntaxException e) { // log the exception } } }

More details here: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#howusemozilla Note: my code is slightly different from FAQ (different plugin ID) - i works for me this way.