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I want to make SWT use Firefox 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.

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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:

Code:

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.

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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);
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  • I am this error, can't find the solution: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: org.eclipse.swt.internal.mozilla.init.XPCOMInit.GREVersionRange_sizeof()I – Chexpir May 07 '15 at 16:56
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    When I run `xulrunner.exe --register-global`, it tells me that `Error: couldn't parse application.ini`. – kenshinji Dec 06 '16 at 05:34