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In my preferences (General > Web Browser) I have "Default system web browser" checked in the "External web browsers" list. Chrome is set as my system's default browser; other apps recognize it and use it. But when I Select Help > Help Contents in Eclipse, it launches Firefox instead of Chrome. Firefox isn't even listed in my "External web browsers." It used to be my system's default browser, but hasn't been for several weeks now. Eclipse should recognize Chrome as the system browser and use it.
This is also present in Eclipse 3.6.x
This is made worse due to bug 297273 which makes it nearly impossible to even manually add Google Chrome as an external browser.
Did this ever work correctly in Eclipse? I don't think anything has changed recently in the browser detection code.
I tried back to 3.4 (the oldest version I have here at work) and it behaves the same.
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. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.
This bug has been marked as stalebug a while ago without any further interaction. If this report is still relevant for the current release, please reopen and remove the stalebug whiteboard flag.
