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

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

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 at gmail.com>
> To: java-devel at 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-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
> 
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