How to embed a browser object, other than IE<n>, in a Delphi application

TWebBrowser is IE. It is not a plugable construction for browsers. You can have other browsers integrated in your application. See

• http://www.adamlock.com/mozilla/
• http://delphi.mozdev.org/articles/taming_the_lizard_with_delphi.html
• http://ftp.newbielabs.com/Delphi%20Gecko%20SDK/

Time has moved on

This answer is from '08 and since then time has moved on. The links don't work anymore and there are probably better alternatives now.

A viable alternative is CEF - Chromium Embedded Framework which encapsulates the Chromium browser which by itself encapsulates WebKit. This library is provided as plain DLLs with an exported C API.

There's a delphi interface available at code.google.com/p/delphichromiumembedded

I've been using it with my own interface implementation and works great, though not so easy to properly use as THTML or IE, but great for whoever needs a powerful and embeddable browser.

Edit: Lars beat me to it, unfortunately

Well there is an ActiveX control based on the Gecko engine that tries to present an exact copy of the IWebBrowser API (which TWebBrowser uses).

You can find it here: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm Unfortunately it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. The last version is based on Gecko 1.7.12 and I believe Gecko is currently up to 1.9.x (used in Firefox 3)