google chrome under kde

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:41 +0000, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 21/03/11 21:55, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 14:07 +0000, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I wonder if anyone has tried google-chrome (from the google
> >> repositories) dev channel under kde 4.5.5 and whether it works ok for them?
> >>
> >> I'm having problems with it hanging a lot on F14 x86_64, but not every
> >> time. When I start it, sometimes it just doesnt render some web pages.
> >> Often if its trying to restore half a dozen tabs it'll do a couple but
> >> hang on the rest. Eventually they timeout.
> > 
> > It's my regular browsing environment. Haven't had problems with it in a
> > long time. You might try disabling any extensions, or in the worst case
> > remove the cached info.
> > 
> > poc
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Thanks for your response. I finally tracked the problem down! Its the
> gecko-mediaplayer plugin that is causing the problem for me.
> 
> That plugin was recently un-blacklisted in the chrome dev builds (as
> previously it would cause hangs). It seems to be fine under gnome but
> not under kde. I wonder whats going on there? Maybe I'll ask on the
> gecko-mediaplayer list.

For what it's worth, I don't use that plugin but can still play media.
Chrome has some builtin capabilities which seem to work, at least on
Youtube and the like.

poc