Oh Ismail, sorry, I think I got the message after I've noticed your comments above. You tried the workaround, not the standard Eclipse.
The workaround with the "mozilla" default type works for me, too, using Firefox 20 (xulrunner-17.0.5-2.1.x86_64).
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > Ah I am using GNOME:Stable:3.8 repo.
>
> I use apparently (almost) the same environment OpenSUSE 12.3 +
> GNOME:Stable:3.8 and it crashes. Before updating to GNOME:Stable:3.8 it
> didn't crash for several weeks of intensive work with Eclipse. Therefore I'd
> rather ask:
> - You don't override -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType in eclipse.ini?
> - Did you try the Javadoc hovers in some open Java editor for a while?
Oh Ismail, sorry, I think I got the message after I've noticed your comments above. You tried the workaround, not the standard Eclipse. 17.0.5- 2.1.x86_ 64).
The workaround with the "mozilla" default type works for me, too, using Firefox 20 (xulrunner-
(In reply to comment #11) swt.browser. DefaultType in eclipse.ini?
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > Ah I am using GNOME:Stable:3.8 repo.
>
> I use apparently (almost) the same environment OpenSUSE 12.3 +
> GNOME:Stable:3.8 and it crashes. Before updating to GNOME:Stable:3.8 it
> didn't crash for several weeks of intensive work with Eclipse. Therefore I'd
> rather ask:
> - You don't override -Dorg.eclipse.
> - Did you try the Javadoc hovers in some open Java editor for a while?