Bug 808484
| Summary: | epiphany should depend on nspluginwrapper | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum> |
| Component: | epiphany | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | debarshir, gecko-bugs-nobody, rob.townley, stransky |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-08-01 00:28:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Nathaniel McCallum
2012-03-30 14:03:00 UTC
Why do you want to have such dependency? Any plugins built against gtk2 will crash epiphany. The main offender here is flash, but there may be others. nspluginwrapper allows the plugins to work transparently. Why any gtk2 plugin crashes epiphany? Is epiphany linked against gtk3? Or is there any other reason for the crashes? Yes, epiphany is linked agianst gtk3. Any plugin using gtk2 will result in symbol resolution problems (aka crash) unless nspluginwrapper is used to move the plugins out of process. When WebKit2 is merged (hopefully for Fedora 19), Epiphany will do out of process plugins by default and nspluginwrapper will no longer be needed to prevent crashes. Even having the nspluginwrapper as a dependency, it does not solve the need of manual running npconfig to wrap all the existing plugins. Yes, it can be done in post-phase of an rpm installation, but what if you install some other plugins later? You have to run npconfig again. We run the plugin configuration in firefox start script, look at /usr/bin/firefox. This message is a reminder that Fedora 17 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 17. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '17'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 17 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |