Web Browser

The web browser is currently used in these views:

• Search
• Tour blog

Depending on the operating system some actions are needed to use it.

Windows

MyTourbook is using the built in web browser, no other actions are needed.

Linux

It is a little bit difficult to use a web browser in MyTourbook but it's possible, more details is documented here.

MyTourbook tries to use the default browser but when this fails, XULrunner is used which requires that it is installed.

MyTourbook is currently based on Eclipse 3.8.2 and needs a specific version of XULrunner. This program can be installed with the following commands (press Enter after each line):

XURL=https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/10.0.2/runtimes/xulrunner-10.0.2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

cd /opt

sudo sh -c "wget -O- $XURL | tar -xj"

sudo ln -s /opt/xulrunner/xulrunner /usr/bin/xulrunner

sudo ln -s /opt/xulrunner/xpcshell /usr/bin/xpcshell

The file mytourbook.ini already contains the path to the XULrunner

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

This page is updated for version 14.14