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Hi all

Does anyone know if it is possible to open a firefox webbrowser in a form.

Or does it take you default web browser as the webbrowser to open in form.

Eg - My Default Browser is Firefox - so does that mean the webbrowser control would be a firefox based one.


Probably a stupid question so sorry if it is.


Any guidance would be great.

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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        'This would open the default browser and navigate to google
        Process.Start("http://www.google.com")
        'This would open Firefox and navigate to google
        Process.Start("Firefox.exe", "http://www.google.com")
    End Sub

The webbrowser control is the webbrowser control. Its no browser.

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Unhnd Exception
Thank you for replying to my post.

I am already aware of that as a method of opening a web browser and navigating, however what i meant (and may not have made clear) is:

I have placed a webbrowser in the form and need that to be a firefox browser.

I do not need to oopen and navigate a new browser to a site, i need the browser inbedded into the form to be firefox and navigate to the site.

Any ideas.

Thanks you for you help

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Check out this link. Read through it for more info and follow the link provided in the that thread to load an application in a Form, not a TabControl.

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I managed to find a guide on another forum that had been posted a short while back, that has a really good step-by-step 'How-To' on embedding a Firefox/Gecko browser into a VB.Net userform.

I've been able to get it working and while I have a couple of wrinkles to iron out, I'm confident that in time, I'll get running like it should be.

Just in case anybody else wants to give it a go the link to the guide is ---> http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=616767

I'll now mark this thread as solved.

Regards,

Rob.

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