Bug#343667: eclipse: Help->Help Contents launches external browser
Michael Koch
konqueror at gmx.de
Wed Feb 8 12:54:38 UTC 2006
tag 343667 pending
thanks
> > if I'm not mistaken the help system should work such that opening the
> > help opens a view with an embedded gecko-browser. However choosing
> > Help->Help Contents launches a full firefox here. Opening the Help View
> > manually works however.
> >
> > If the behaviour is indeed correct and I'm just stupid to think that
> > Help->Help Contents launches the Help-View instead of an external
> > browser, please immediately close this bug report.
> >
> > Hmm, looking through the preferences I do see that I cannot choose to
> > use the "internal web browser", maybe that's related?
>
> Yes, I can confirm this. Seems to be a bug in handling the setting of
> the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable. I will investigate this
> more.
We have finally found a workaround for this. It's commited in pkg-java
CVS and will be included in the next upload of eclipse, 3.1.2-1.
Cheers,
Michael
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