How to set up internal browser for Aptana on Linux

Question

I downloaded the Aptana_Studio_Setup_Linux.zip package, unpacked it and run ./AptanaStudio. It starts fine, but reports one problem:

The embedded browser widget

Answer 1

Edit: getting internal browser to work is NOT required in order to get PHP support in Aptana. Just install PHP support from Help, Software updates menu.

Answer 2

After installing xulrunner you need to set this:

MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner

Answer 3

I happened to come across this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/xmind/5SjPTy0MmEo/PbPi0OGzqPwJ

Which advised running:

sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0

should solve the problem. It worked for me so I figured I'd share here.

FWIW, I ended up here while trying to get the Play! Framework working on Ubuntu 13.04. using the Scala-IDE. So far, everything seems to be working...

Answer 4

You need to download and install XULRunner from mozilla.org, and point MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to that directory.

Answer 5

If this is the problem I think you're having, just installing Firefox 2 (alongside FF3) should fix the issue. It happens because Aptana can only use FF2 at the moment. Hopefully they'll fix this soon.

If you're on Ubuntu, it's really just a case of:

sudo apt-get install firefox-2

Naturally, the process will vary on different distributions.

Answer 6

You will have to install XULRunner then edit the eclipse.ini.

After installing xulrunner, adding the following line in the eclipse.ini solved the problem of "No more handles" issue.

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/opt/eclipse/xulrunner/

I am using eclipse 3.63 and ubuntu 12.04.