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If by some reason your external browser don't start and return non-zero code, IDE will not report error. Steps to reproduce: 1)By same way make your browser unusable. For example on Solaris 8 and netscape you can play with XFILESEARCHPATH variable in such maner, that netscape on startup will say: "netscape: couldn't find our resources? <skipped> Also check for this file in your home directory, or in the directory called `app-defaults' somewhere under /usr/lib/. " return 255 as exit code($? variable) and don't start. 2)Check, that External Browser(Unix) is your default browser for IDE 3)Check, that External Browser(Unix) is configured to run netscape {params} 4)Check, that no Netscape's window is opened on your DISPLAY (xwininfo -name Netscape must say: No window with name Netscape exists! 5)Try to perform execute any servlet and note, that "Running command netscape ..." is printed in status line, browser don's started without any error messages. It may confuse user, because he can't locate problem. Well reproduced on Solaris 8 with FFJ4.0 EE RC1 and netscape 4.61
Set target milestone to TBD
Exit code is checked now though it is not always possible (sometimes process may not finish in a reasonable time).
Exit code is only partly checked now(for Solaris 9). 1)External Browser(Unix): Exit code is checked, but message is confusing for user. It says "Cannot execute /usr/bin/netscape ..." But really the command was executed but just returned non-zero exit code. 2)External Browser(Command Line): Exit code is not checked at all. Even if command was executed and returned non-zero nothing happens.