External Browsers Module Home

This is the home page for the modules that integrate the NetBeans IDE with WWW browsers. The most important is the extbrowser module, which is a standard part of the NetBeans IDE.

The extbrowser module allows the usage of standalone HTML browsers such as Mozilla, Netscape or Internet Explorer for displaying URLs whenever it is necessary. This means that HTML pages are displayed in an external program instead of using the internal Swing-based HTML browser.

The currently supported browsers are:

• Mozilla (UNIX and Windows)
• Mozilla Firefox (UNIX and Windows)
• Netscape (UNIX and Windows)
• Internet Explorer (Windows only)

Under Windows the DDE protocol is used to communicate with the browser, which allows for opening URLs in existing windows. For other operating systems than UNIX and Windows there is also a "generic" external browser which allows the users to specify the command line of an arbitrary browser.