Problem with Linux and the browser component

[Tim Shelley]

Hi all,

It's been identified that there is an issue with certain versions of Linux where you may have a newer version of the xulrunner library, see: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux

Our Project and Task editors embed a browser component that can be easily linked to url pages to help give them descriptions. Under Linux this browser component requires a specific versions of xulrunner and will not run correctly with newer versions.

Thanks go to fgroves for identifying and helping to find a workaround to this issue.

The workaround is:

1. Download the the 1.9.0 version of the 32 bit XULruner, e.g.: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.9.0.10/runtimes/xulrunner-1.9.0.10.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
2. Install the Xulrunner at some location e.g/ /opt
3. Within the installation of xProcess there is a xprocess.ini file. Add the following line in xprocess.ini: -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/opt/xulrunner

This makes sure it runs the 1.9.0 version of xulrunner and not a newer version that Eclipse 3.4 does not support.

Regards,

Tim.

[Tim Shelley]

Hi all,

It looks like the link in the above post no longer works. Instead use:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner_1.9_Release_Notes and download the Linux version

[Tim Shelley]

Those of you running Ubuntu 12.04 will find that xulrunner is no longer part of the repositories.  To fix this you can follow this guide:

http://blog.foos-bar.com/2012/05/eclipse-rcp-development-browser-control.html

Which basically guides you through download and installing the following:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/xulrunner-1.9.2
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/libhunspell-1.2-0

xulrunner has a dependency on libhunspell-1.2.0

[Tim Shelley]

The links in the last post no longer work because natty is no longer supported. You can now get them from here:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libhunspell-1.2-0
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/xulrunner-1.9.2