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Bug 89750

Summary: [Browser] new browser support chose wrong default
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Mazen Faraj <mfaraj>
Component: UIAssignee: Tim deBoer <deboer>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Mazen Faraj CLA 2005-03-30 19:30:56 EST 
I03300500 

out of the box, the new browser support chose the wrong defaults on my machine.
I have Netscape 4.1, firefox, and IE6.0 
Browser preferences showed them all. but defaulted to Netscape as the selected 
one.
Is the support going to honor system defined default?  
ps: what causes the hard disk to churn on a first launch, or open of the 
preference page? I was wondering what the browser code is trying to resolve on 
a first open.
Comment 1 Dejan Glozic CLA 2005-04-06 18:14:26 EDT 
Tim, consider adding another radio button to the preference page:

(*) Internal browser
( ) Default system browser <--- new
( } External browser from the list

The second choice would simply mean 'use Program.launch' and pick whatever is 
system giving you. I suggest we switch to that choice if internal browser is 
not available, unless we know about some os/ws combinations where the system 
browser does not exist or is not a good choice.

In particular, we should never get in a situation where we have no external 
browsers in the list and cannot use embedded widget. 'Program.launch' is 
better than doing nothing.
Comment 2 Dejan Glozic CLA 2005-05-04 11:27:01 EDT 
On platforms where there are multiple browsers found, and the default system 
browser is also detected, we should initially check the browser that matches 
the default system browser. On my Windows system, out of IE, Mozilla and 
Netscape 4.7, Netscape is checked by default, which is the last choice I would 
make :-). I should have been either IE or Mozilla depending on my system 
default. We can easily find the default by calling 'Program.findProgram
(extension)' and call 'Program.getName()' on the return value.
Comment 3 Tim deBoer CLA 2005-05-23 23:56:06 EDT 
The default system browser is now moved to the external browser list to fix some
UI concerns. It will always be available and selected by default when this
support is available through SWT.