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Bug 19506

Summary:	Starting Netscape-like browsers from IDE has problems
Product:	ide	Reporter:	Jason Rush <jrush>
Component:	Extbrowser	Assignee:	Martin Grebac <mgrebac>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows ME/2000
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	12445, 19040, 20363
Bug Blocks:

Description Jason Rush 2002-01-17 01:29:16 UTC

In the NetBeans 3.3.1 RC1 build, if you set up the IDE to use Netscape 6 as the 
Windows browser and attempt to start the browser from the IDE, the error dialog 
will be thrown which says "Could not access the URL through the external 
browser.  ..."

However, this is likely just a matter of the browser starting slow.  
Eventually, the browser is opened with the correct URL, so the error message is 
wrong.

The other problem is that three Netscape windows end up being opened -- a blank 
one, one with the user's home page and one with the URL from the IDE.  We 
should open at most two windows.

Comment 1 _ rkubacki 2002-01-17 08:26:32 UTC

we have to tune starting. It really can take some time.

the problem with too many windows can be related to bug 19040 (looks
like a bug in Netscape6 and works better with Mozilla)

IMO it is risky to fix this timing in NB3.3.1

Comment 2 eadams 2002-01-18 15:35:12 UTC

Waiver approved for both Ian and I.

Comment 3 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-18 15:48:40 UTC

Approved by QA.

Comment 4 _ rkubacki 2002-02-22 16:38:49 UTC

20363 deals with timeouts that cause printing of error message even
when browser is opened

19040 about opening new windows

12445 is more general problem that new window is opened for the first
request

Comment 5 _ rkubacki 2002-03-13 08:09:28 UTC

The 12445 is fixed so we can decsrease priority.

Comment 6 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 09:53:37 UTC

Set target milestone to TBD

Comment 7 _ rkubacki 2003-03-03 10:05:37 UTC

I will try to address for 4.0 release

Comment 8 _ rkubacki 2003-10-07 15:32:38 UTC

Reassigning browser bugs

Comment 9 Martin Grebac 2003-11-06 13:25:41 UTC

 This is something like a more general problem - when I execute the
same command from command-line, netscape start without problems and
rather quickly. But, if the command is issued in the IDE, the startup
is much loooonger. Increase of startup timeout for these browsers
somewhat helps, but I think it should (could?) be tweaked somehow better.

Comment 10 Martin Grebac 2004-01-27 15:01:26 UTC

This should have been fixed today, too.