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Bug 328609 - [Browser] IE7 WebBrowser being embedded on machine with IE8
Summary: [Browser] IE7 WebBrowser being embedded on machine with IE8
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.7 RC2   Edit
Assignee: Grant Gayed CLA
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: 338368 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-10-25 10:25 EDT by Grant Gayed CLA
Modified: 2011-08-24 11:03 EDT (History)
4 users (show)

See Also:
Silenio_Quarti: review+
gheorghe: review+

Attachments
patch (18.27 KB, patch)
2011-05-18 15:18 EDT, Grant Gayed CLA 		no flags Details | Diff
additional patch that's needed for compiling on WinCE (911 bytes, patch)
2011-05-19 10:26 EDT, Grant Gayed CLA 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Grant Gayed CLA 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 CLA 2011-05-17 12:52:05 EDT 
Considering for 3.7RC2.
Comment 2 Grant Gayed CLA 2011-05-17 12:55:22 EDT 
*** Bug 338368 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Grant Gayed CLA 2011-05-18 15:18:03 EDT 
Created attachment 196038 [details]
patch
Comment 4 Grant Gayed CLA 2011-05-18 15:20:11 EDT 
fixed > 20110518
Comment 5 Grant Gayed CLA 2011-05-19 10:26:38 EDT 
Created attachment 196113 [details]
additional patch that's needed for compiling on WinCE
Comment 6 Ian Tewksbury CLA 2011-08-24 10:06:33 EDT 
Any chances of seeing this back ported :)
Comment 7 Grant Gayed CLA 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 CLA 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.