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I need a Gecko WebBrowser Control

I need a sample code or a link which explains how to use GECKO

If anyone has used Gecko, I could do with some advice

wonea
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Original tutorial with detailed snapshots can be found here.

A most recent update can be found here. Please upvote in that article if you find it useful :)

To embed Gecko browser in your winform application, you need:

  • XulRunner: XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It provides mechanisms for installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these applications. XULRunner can be downloaded here. Choose the version you like.

  • GeckoFx .net assembly file, which you can download from here. Also choose the correct version which matches the XulRunner version.

  • Unpack the GeckoFX-330.zip, you will get below files:

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  • Add references to the dlls as shown above, click browse and select the Geckofx-Core.dll and Geckofx-Winforms.dll

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  • In the toolbox, right click, and then select “Choose Item”, select Geckofx-Winforms.dll, and the Gecko winform control will be shown in the toolbox

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  • Drag a GeckoWebBrowser control to the winform designer, and let’s call it “browser” enter image description here

  • In the form1.cs file, add below code: enter image description here

The line Gecko.Xpcom.Initialize(@”..\xulrunner”); specifies where the xulrunner runtime is located. In this case, we put it into a folder (@”..\xulrunner”).

Now run the application, yeah~~~

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David
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    Thank you very much for taking your time to write this answer, even though the question itself is a couple of years old... – Mathlight Nov 28 '15 at 23:09
  • @David Thank you for quick and easy reference, during my implementation i am facing time out alerts for few sites. please refer the post if you can help me https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63441947/c-sharp-winform-adding-geckofx60-64-60-0-47-as-browser-and-open-few-sites-shows – Hi Ten Aug 16 '20 at 21:54
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You should check out http://code.google.com/p/geckofx/. To get some code samples see the Wiki page.

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