google chrome under kde

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 22/03/11 11:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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

I guess that'll be the flash player which is built in. The thing is that
I have the other media players for use with firefox etc. I guess I'll
have to find a way to disable these for chrome if the gecko-mediaplayer
and kde folks can't help me find why that combination hangs under kde.

Roderick