[rekonq] Re: anyone else having problems with rekonq and Flash?

[Panagiotis Papadopoulos]

Am Donnerstag 30 Dezember 2010, 12:21:14 schrieb Alexander van Loon:
> On Thursday 30 December 2010 11:07:48 Andrea Diamantini wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 December 2010 22:00:31 Alexander van Loon wrote:
> > > Today I migrated to Kubuntu 10.10 on my desktop, after having used that
> > > distribution for a few months on my notebook already. Now that I’m using
> > > KDE and Rekonq full time I noticed that there are some problems with Flash
> > > (the 64-bit beta in my case to be precise). I suspect that those problems
> > > are not related to Flash itself, but rather KDE’s implementation of
> > > WebKit.
> > > 
> > > Please see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261523 for a description of
> > > my problems. There are other bugs related to Flash on KDE’s Bugzilla -
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=rekonq+flash - but none with
> > > any comment from a developer.  I searched through the archives of this
> > > mailing list for the last few months, but Flash isn’t mentioned there
> > > either. Google didn’t tell me anything either, except for relatively old
> > > forum posts, which I considered no longer relevant. I expected to read
> > > that other people would be affected by this problem as well, because Flash
> > > is unfortunately so important. Are there any other people experiencing
> > > problems, and are there any known solutions?
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> > 
> > Hi Alexander,
> > I hope I can reply here to your question explaining all the problems "flash" 
> > related we can meet surfing the net with the KDE browsers.
> > 
> > First of all, flash itself. I have no experience with flash 64 bit, but I 
> > usually hear complains about the differences from 32 to 64 bits in (some) 
> > precompiled software. Here, we obviously cannot do nothing but compare flash 
> > performance and behavior viewing the same site eg with rekonq and with firefox.
> > As example, I noticed from when I upgraded my X11 that flash no more properly 
> > support fullscreen view, so that every time it stops to load/cache new 
> > content, fullscreen automatically switchs off :(
> > 
> > Second, nspluginwrapper. This is a nice piece of code from KDE, that can load 
> > in another process some plugins (eg: flash) and that can be embedded in 
> > windows.
> > KHTML uses it, so all problems flash related in KHTML are from that part of 
> > code. I suspect it is unmaintained or anyway it is not in active development, 
> > but in maintenance mode.
> > KWebkitPart relies on QtWebKit flash support in the same way rekonq does. 
> > At least... rekonq relies on QtWebKit flash support for sure, while 
> > kwebkitpart... did the last time I checked cause of some bugs on the 
> > nspluginwrapper integration.
> > 
> > So, let's talk now about rekonq. Flash management depends on 2 components: 
> > QtWebKit rendering and network integration. You may probably know that, while 
> > QtWebKit network layer has been implemented via the QtNetwork libs (QNAM and 
> > friends), KDEWebKit relies on KIO to do it. KIO is KDE network layer, that 
> > basically provides the full KDE integration (network settings, proxy, easier 
> > kpart support, etc... basically what let us be a KDE browser).
> > On this side there is a problem in kio_http integration with WebKit that 
> > you'll find hopefully fixed in KDE SC 4.6 RC2 (surely for 4.6 final).
> > On WebKit side, I can just say I don't wish anyone to work on flash support... 
> > :) but I know someone does it and he is doing a great work!
> > 
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> 
> Thank you for the detailed explanation Andrea. I'll be looking forward to 4.6 RC2 then. For those who wonder, RC2 is 
> planned - http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.6_Release_Schedule - to be released on Wednesday 5 January.
> 
> Like Shane I also noticed that GMail doesn't load, unless I choose the simple HTML interface. Is that issue also related to 
> the KIO bugs, or does it have a different cause? 
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AFAIK it is related.