Viewing external doc fails on 1.5 Java Doc

Created March 15, 2009 15:21

If I'm in IDEA and select a JDK class (like Properties) and hit Shift-F1 (External Doc) I get this: Cannot show "jar:///System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/docs.jar!/doc/api/java/util/Properties.html" in external browser

It works on other non-JDK classes. I'm on IJ 8.1 on OS X 10.5.6

1 comment

Alexander Chernikov

Created March 16, 2009 11:41

Hi.

It most likely means that your browser cannot open URLs to jar archives. AFAIK, only FireFox can do it.

In IDEA 9 the special workaround feature is implemented: http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEADEV-34177

For more earlier versions you can specify a directory instead of jar file in the JDK configuration.

Alexander.

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