[WebKit-devel] [Bug 232736] Flash mimetype association is ignored

[Chris]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232736





--- Comment #2 from Chris <chris kcat gmail com>  2010-03-31 10:18:16 ---
Odd.. I'm pretty sure I selected Gentoo Package with Recent SVN or Snapshot
Version (I used an ebuild that pulled kwebkitpart from KDE's SVN, built, and
installed it using emerge). But either way, I unmerged it and reinstalled using
a properly-built checkout. The rest of KDE was built using Gentoo's standard
packages.

> Originally, handling of flash content was deffered to QtWebKit because using nspluginviewer under kdewebkit/qtwebkit resulted many random crashes and other nasty side effects.

I see. Thanks for the clarification.

I remember a similar problem in early 4.0, where flash with nspluginviewer
would cause crashes with Konqueror/KHTML. The work-around was to use KMPlayer's
Ice Ape plugin, which could load the flash plugin with knpplayer, and interact
with the browser in place of nspluginviewer. I kept that set up since it more
or less worked, and provided a nice Click-to-Play functionality (for some
objects). I wonder if the same workaround would work for qt/kdewebkit.

I'll see if I can get emerge to apply a patch to kdelibs to remove those lines
and see how well (or not) it works.

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