Bug#443600: konqueror-nsplugins: I think this was marked done prematurely
Package: konqueror-nsplugins
Version: 4:3.5.7-4
Followup-For: Bug #443600
Hi,
This bug still bites hard. While it is true that Adobe
is ultimately to blame (as it is their code which uses
GTK without initializing it), nspluginviewer could initialize
GTK for their library, and allow debian/konqueror users
to view flash content (at the time of this posting, the
last entry on bug #440165 is from a user asking how to
work around it).
<wildguess gtk-knowledge="rumours">
It is even arguable that initializing an environment (like gtk)
is something only an app (like nspluginviewer) should do,
and not a library (like flash) -- even though I've seen it
argued that multiple GTK initialization is harmless.
</wildguess>
The Adobe bug does not seem to be insurmountable; iceweasel
manages to run flash successfully (that is, it bumps into
bugs other than this one).
Additionally, unless it is the flash library itself which
enters an infinite loop with this bug, nspluginviewer taking
100% CPU is undesired behavior; and whether or not nspluginviewer
could behave better, konqueror (a separate process) hanging
seems like a worthy bug.
Hope this helps,
Shai.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages konqueror-nsplugins depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-7 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5 GCC support library
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-9 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
konqueror-nsplugins recommends no packages.
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