Re: [fedora-java] Eclipse crashes on F20 with Google Talk plugin

[Mattias Eriksson]

There is already an open bug upstream (see the link in my previous mail)
and I added this suggestion to it.
/Snaggen
Den 17 nov 2013 10:42 skrev "Aleksandar Kurtakov" <akurtako(a)redhat.com&gt;:

>  Hi Mathias,
>  The very same crash will happen even with Eclipse downloaded from
>  Eclipse.org. So would you please open a bug report about this in
>  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Platform against SWT
>  component with this proposal? I would like to hear from other SWT
>  developers what side effects this might have before doing such a change.
>
>  Alexander Kurtakov
>  Red Hat Eclipse team
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Mattias Eriksson" <snaggen(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  > To: java-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:05:53 PM
>  > Subject: [fedora-java] Eclipse crashes on F20 with Google Talk plugin
>  >
>  >
>  > I don't know if this is the correct place, but the wiki
>  > ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Eclipse ) pointed me here. I just
>  > wanted to inform you that it seems that the google-talkplugin makes
>  > eclipse totally unusable. It will crash everytime it loads webkit (which
>  > is about every 5 seconds for a normal eclipse developer, if I'm a good
>  > measurement). I was forced to spend a few hours of debugging (replacing
>  > system java, system eclipse aso) before I found this:
>  >
>  >
>  http://eclipseandlinux.blogspot.se/2013/10/google-talk-plugin-presence-br...
>  >
>  > and also
>  > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=334466
>  > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100622
>  >
>  > I realize that the real problem here is to handle this in webkit, and
>  > not crash if plugins are bad. Or to just make google-talkplugin behave
>  > nicely. But it also seems weird that eclipse craches because some bad
>  > web browser plugin, I suggest to make eclipse use webkit without plugins
>  > support. Something like:
>  > webview.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(false);
>  >
>  > I think they did this with shotwell, to avoid a simmilar flash related
>  > crash:
>  > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2183
>  >
>  > I think this is a quite serious crash, since many people depend on
>  > eclipse to work and quite a lot of them may have google-talkplugin
>  > installed. And I can also tell you that it is not the easiest problem to
>  > track down, since it is not the most obvious connection.
>  >
>  > I hope this helps.
>  >
>  > //Snaggen
>  >
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