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Oracle Reports gives : "Failed to locate the Browser" Error. Please help.

712635Jul 19 2009 — edited Mar 8 2010

Hello All,

I am new to Oracle Reports Developer. I followed the "Oracle Reports Tutorials" (Document ID : B14364-01) to build my first report.

I tried to run the report in web layout mode : I got the following things.
1) A new blank firefox window.
2) After a few seconds : A message window in Report Builder with : "Failed to Locate the Browser" Message

My Machine details :

Windows XP sp3.
Oracle Developer Suite 10g.
Firefox version : 3.5.
Registry Entries : HKEY_CURRENT_USER|Software|Oracle|Toolkit|TKBrowser. No BrowserName, BrowserPath keys found. So I added these keys manually under the paths :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER|Software|Oracle|Toolkit|TKBrowser|BrowserName (value = firefox)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER|Software|Oracle|Toolkit|TKBrowser|BrowserPath (value=C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe)

Ran the report again. This time also I encountered the same scenarios which I mentioned previously. Also tried with registry setting
HKEY_CURRENT_USER|Software|Oracle|Toolkit|TKBrowser with value "BrowserName=firefox;BrowserPath=C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe".

I also ran with the all the settings once without restarting the computer after making the changes. And also ran each time by restarting the computer whenever I changed the value. I could not get a break thourgh.

Please help me in resolving this issue. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Suresh.