Comment 4 for bug 191586

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Zorael (zorael) wrote :

This seems to have been resurrected in Karmic and 3.4.1-0ubuntu2.

       $ apt-cache depends eclipse-platform | grep firefox
         Depends: firefox

Also at http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/eclipse-platform;

       dep: firefox (>= 1.4.99)
           meta package for the popular mozilla web browser
           also a virtual package provided by abrowser

I understand Eclipse needs xulrunner as a build dependency (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/191586/comments/2), but I really doubt the app itself does.