Description of problem: When the Mozilla plugin for Gnash installed, and is registered by Konqueror as a Netscape plugin to use for embedded Flash stuff, every time one goes to a page with Flash stuff embedded, a crash dialog for nspluginviewer shows up. Which is really annoying. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-3.5.8-32.fc8 How reproducible: Medium Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install gnash-plugin. 2. In Konqueror, go to Settings --> Configure Konqueror --> Plugins, click "Scan for New Plugins", so that "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnashplugin.so" is listed in the Plugins tab. (Konqueror will likely pick it up on it's own over time, that's what happened to me, and I don't have "Scan for new plugins at KDE startup" enabled). 3. Restart Konqueror ("killall konqueror"), and go to any page with Flash on it, my favorite test page is www.asus.com Actual results: Garbled graphics in the area where the Flash "applet" would be located, and a crash dialog. Expected results: The page with no Flash stuff, since the Mozilla plugin for Gnash really should not be used by Konqueror, as it's, as far as I know, meant for Firefox (And Mozilla-based browsers) and gnash-klash is meant for Konqueror. Additional info: I don't use Adobe's Flash primarily because I keep my system free of proprietary software, but I also just hate Flash like the plague. To me it gets in my way when I'm browsing the web.
Created attachment 295068 [details] Five screenshots of the crash dialog for nspluginviewer
I forgot to add that I have gnash-plugin (Mozilla plugin) and not gnash-klash installed, because I primarily use Konqueror for web browsing, and would like a Flash-free web browsing experience, and then use Firefox as a guinea pig for playing with Gnash, to see if it's working for say YouTube and stuff.
Created attachment 295069 [details] Backtrace for nspluginviewer_crash_5.png, the crash on tv-tokyo.co.jp
While this is certainly annoying, I'm afraid we can't do much about that, Konqueror has support for Mozilla plugins (not perfect as you're seeing), so it will try to load them if it finds them. You can disable the loading of Mozilla plugins in the preferences.
(In reply to comment #4) > While this is certainly annoying, I'm afraid we can't do much about that, > Konqueror has support for Mozilla plugins (not perfect as you're seeing), so it > will try to load them if it finds them. You can disable the loading of Mozilla > plugins in the preferences. > I realize that, but the thing is, this problem only just started with the recent kdebase update (kdebase-3.5.8-32.fc8), before then it did not occur.
Konqueror didn't support nspluginwrapper before.
(In reply to comment #6) > Konqueror didn't support nspluginwrapper before. > I see. I don't mean to be rude, but it seems to me as if that support is quite buggy since it crashes on every page. And it's also very inconvenient because then I can't have the Gnash plugin for Firefox installed without Konqueror being annoying. Somewhat frustrating picture when one just wishes to be a casual tester (Who prefers KDE to GNOME), and also want to use their favored browser to surf the Internet. How come this nspluginviewer stuff gets into the kdebase package for Fedora, when it causes a problem like this?
Because we weren't aware of this bug. Actually I'm not sure this is really related to nspluginwrapper, it looks to me like Konqueror's nspluginviewer is loading the native plugin directly (like it normally does, except when loading a 32-bit plugin in a 64-bit Konqueror). The Konqueror nspluginviewer changes were rushed in to make the current versions of the proprietary Flash work. This is also in upstream 3.5.9 now, so it is likely that that will crash the same way. :-(
And to be honest, trying to load the plugin is the _right_ thing to do, the actual bug is that it doesn't work.
(In reply to comment #8) > Because we weren't aware of this bug. > I see, fair enough! > Actually I'm not sure this is really related to nspluginwrapper, it looks to me > like Konqueror's nspluginviewer is loading the native plugin directly (like it > normally does, except when loading a 32-bit plugin in a 64-bit Konqueror). > > The Konqueror nspluginviewer changes were rushed in to make the current > versions of the proprietary Flash work. This is also in upstream 3.5.9 now, so > it is likely that that will crash the same way. :-( > Darn! :P Anyway, thanks for the info. (In reply to comment #9) > And to be honest, trying to load the plugin is the _right_ thing to do, the > actual bug is that it doesn't work. > I agree.
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