[opensource-dev] Linux + QtWebKit + Flash 10.1.x = Crash

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Hello all,

It looks like recent (>10.1) Flash versions can't work with any QtWebKit 
browser including the webkit plugin in Snowglobe 1.x and Viewer 2 on Linux. 
This is because those versions of Flash don't initialize gtk properly (Adobe 
assuming that the browser is gtk based, i.e. Firefox.)

This results in the crash of the SLPlugin process when trying to show the 
login page, or any other web page (though some of the pages sometimes get 
half-rendered).

There is a fix for this in upstream QtWebKit, but this would require 
rebuilding the prebuilt llqtwebkit packages. Until then, Linux users who are 
trying to stay safe have a problem, because Flash 10.0 is not getting security 
updates on Linux anymore, apparently (and the chances of Adobe fixing this are 
close to zero.) So I think we need to solve this as quickly as possible.

Here are the relevant bugs:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-548
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40567


This is what Flash spits out on stdout before crashing:
(process:2096): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 
/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gtype.c:2706: You forgot to call 
g_type_init()
(process:2096): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 
`initialization_value != 0' failed
(process:2096): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 
`G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

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