[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 at redhat.com>:

> 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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