Today is: 10 March, 2010

Fixing the HTML Browser in Notes 8 for Linux

Notes v8 and v8.0.1 (native) for Linux both use the Mozilla rendering engine.  However, it looks for a fairly old version of xulrunner, specifically version 1.9 beta 5.  To fix this:

  1. Verify you have a directory /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9 (probably a symlink to a specific point revision).
  2. Delete the entire directory tree for /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5 (if it exists.  And verify first that /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9 isn't linking here!!)
  3. Symbolically link /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5 to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9

NOTE: This is fixed in Lotus Notes v8.5 for Linux.