Chrome/ Firefox Alternative to TWebBrowser Control

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I have a Delphi app that shows a group of webpages in a TWebBrowser control. Its a kiosk type app so a user touches a button on the side and it shows a particular webpage in a tab. I am having some problems with certain sites and getting IE javscript errors.

I would like to know if there is a way I can embed a chrome or firefox browser in a tab or on a form from Delphi?

This question seems to answer the issue I had with getting javascript errors.

Surely it uses the ie that's on the box? I have the most up to date. — Toby Allen, Sep 16 '11 at 22:52
IE6 (what XP shipped with) is pretty poor at Javascript. IE9 is much better. Which IE do you have? — David Heffernan, Sep 17 '11 at 07:08
David, I assume it uses the IE on the box, which is IE8. I get Javascript errors. Perhaps there is an incorrect setting somewhere. — Toby Allen, Sep 17 '11 at 07:39
see this answer for FF alternative: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162718/how-to-embed-a-browser-object-other-than-ien-in-a-delphi-application — Amir Ali Akbari, Nov 20 '12 at 10:02

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 19 '21 at 05:00

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I should have googled first. Found this

http://code.google.com/p/delphichromiumembedded/

Took a little bit of fiddling, but seems to work good.

Direct link to the archive download page: https://code.google.com/archive/p/delphichromiumembedded/downloads Because the Google Code page is closed

edited Sep 19 '21 at 05:00

Søren Højby

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answered Sep 16 '11 at 18:24

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I also tested it. It works well! (Don't forget to deploy the DLL with your app) – Whiler Sep 16 '11 at 19:52
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Yes, I can confirm that IE8 raise random javascript errors with TWebBrowser. We are also in the process to change to Chromium component. – Roland Bengtsson Sep 19 '11 at 15:57
Too bad they don't have a direct download link (they have svn). – Gabriel Sep 29 '14 at 20:48
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How to execute javascript directly using TChromium? – Paulo Roberto Rosa Oct 03 '14 at 19:35

Chrome/ Firefox Alternative to TWebBrowser Control

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