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Bug 328609

Summary:

[Browser] IE7 WebBrowser being embedded on machine with IE8

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

chrriis, gheorghe, itewksbu, zhaoj

Version:

3.7

Flags:

Silenio_Quarti: review+
gheorghe: review+

Target Milestone:

3.7 RC2

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch	none
additional patch that's needed for compiling on WinCE	none

Description Grant Gayed

2010-10-25 10:25:50 EDT

The Browser uses whichever embeddable WebBrowser object is pointed at in the registry at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Shell.Explorer\.  On Vista the  navigator.userAgent property indicates that IE7's control is being used, even though IE8 is installed.

It's possible that IE8 still embeds the IE7 WebBrowser control and changes its userAgent to "IE8" to reflect other changes that it bolts on top of it, but it's also possible that the above registry key can no longer be counted on to point at the newest available WebBrowser version.

Comment 1 Grant Gayed

2011-05-17 12:52:05 EDT

Considering for 3.7RC2.

Comment 2 Grant Gayed

2011-05-17 12:55:22 EDT

*** Bug 338368 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Grant Gayed

2011-05-18 15:18:03 EDT

Created attachment 196038 [details]
patch

Comment 4 Grant Gayed

2011-05-18 15:20:11 EDT

fixed > 20110518

Comment 5 Grant Gayed

2011-05-19 10:26:38 EDT

Created attachment 196113 [details]
additional patch that's needed for compiling on WinCE

Comment 6 Ian Tewksbury

2011-08-24 10:06:33 EDT

Any chances of seeing this back ported :)

Comment 7 Grant Gayed

2011-08-24 10:28:36 EDT

re: comment 6
I assume you mean to the 3.6.x maintenance stream?

Comment 8 Ian Tewksbury

2011-08-24 11:03:58 EDT

(In reply to comment #7)
> re: comment 6
> I assume you mean to the 3.6.x maintenance stream?

That would be wonderful if at all possible.