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Build Identifier: I20110613-1736 This was a brand new installation of Eclipse Indigo, classic edition. It was run on a 64 bit Linux machine, under Slackware 13.1 Uname -a gives: Linux nebula 2.6.33.4 #3 SMP Wed May 12 23:13:09 CDT 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Eclipse. 2.Click Help->Help Contents 3.
Under preferences, enter "browser" in the filter and you should see 2 choices: 1) general/web browser - select "use external browser" and make sure a valid system web browser is specified (like Firefox) 2) help - under "Open help contents" select "in external browser" Does that allow you to open Help?
Same here, for a fresh install of Juno 4.2.1. Clicking on links for search results has the same effect. The fact that this gives no feedback at all via the user intferace, and people have to look at process output, is pretty nasty. Particularly in terms of first user experience. I don't know how eclipse tries to determine the system default browser on Linux, but apparently it is not via the $BROWSER environment variable. It also looks as if the supposed command name were simply an empty string in this case, which should be easy to detect and report to the user via some nicer mechanism. Manually changing the browser from system default to firefox did solve the problem for me.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. If the bug is still relevant, please remove the stalebug whiteboard tag.
