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

[Mattias Eriksson]

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-breaks.html

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