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Bug 506092 - Drop XULRunner support on macOS
Summary: Drop XULRunner support on macOS
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7   Edit
Hardware: All Mac OS X
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.8 M1   Edit
Assignee: Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA
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Blocks: 502090 dropXULRunnerAll
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Reported: 2016-10-17 10:44 EDT by Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA
Modified: 2017-08-01 07:09 EDT (History)
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Description Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2016-10-17 10:44:51 EDT 
XULRunner has been deprecated in 2015. It has been removed from most Linux distros. I'd like to remove it from the macOS port of SWT. There is no resources available in maintaining it.
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-10-18 03:37:42 EDT 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/83418
Comment 2 Torkild Resheim CLA 2017-02-03 04:29:26 EST 
(In reply to Gunnar Wagenknecht from comment #0)
> XULRunner has been deprecated in 2015. It has been removed from most Linux
> distros. I'd like to remove it from the macOS port of SWT. There is no
> resources available in maintaining it.
+1 to getting rid of it.
Comment 3 Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2017-06-19 08:43:20 EDT 
Let's first push only the build related changes to stop building the XULRunner library. The source code changes could be done as a next step together with other platforms.
Comment 5 Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2017-08-01 07:09:36 EDT 
Verified in Build I20170731-2000.

Creating Browser with SWT.MOZILLA style, prints error message to console and falls-back to Webkit.
Running below code on Mac:
browser = new Browser(parent, SWT.MOZILLA);
System.out.println(browser.getBrowserType()); // prints 'webkit' on console.