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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.
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
Waiver approved for both Ian and I.
Approved by QA.
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
The 12445 is fixed so we can decsrease priority.
Set target milestone to TBD
I will try to address for 4.0 release
Reassigning browser bugs
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.
This should have been fixed today, too.