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

[Lance Corrimal]

Am Montag 21 Juni 2010 schrieb Thickbrick Sleaford:
> 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.

seconded. strongly.



bye,
LC