Joey Hess wrote:
Alexey Eromenko wrote:
Default Debian-6 KDE installs gnash, an extremely unstable
component, that constantly crashes KDE Konqueror, when user accesses
any flash-enabled website (such as www.amd.com).
Wouldn't that be a bug in konqueror-nsplugins? No plugin should be
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20110106+squeeze3+b1
Severity: important
Default Debian-6 KDE installs gnash, an extremely unstable
component, that constantly crashes KDE Konqueror, when user accesses
any flash-enabled website (such as www.amd.com).
This makes for very bad newbie user
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Bug #655841 [gnash] Please remove Gnash from default Debian install, as it
crashes
Bug reassigned from package 'gnash' to 'tasksel'.
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gnash is not only installed with KDE, from what I see as its
installation is triggerred by the desktop task, that's common to KDE
and GNOME, at least.
It is triggerred by browser-plugin-gnash.
What do you suggest as alternative? I don't think it is a good idea to
not provide any
Quoting Alexey Eromenko (al4...@gmail.com):
Unfortunately the Free Software community has not yet developed stable
flash player, therefore I suggest to avoid installing _unstable_
software by default.
The rule of thumb is to avoid regressions in general, and crashes in
particular.
Thank
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
gnash is not only installed with KDE, from what I see as its
installation is triggerred by the desktop task, that's common to KDE
and GNOME, at least.
It is triggerred by browser-plugin-gnash.
What do you suggest as alternative? I
Alexey Eromenko wrote:
Default Debian-6 KDE installs gnash, an extremely unstable
component, that constantly crashes KDE Konqueror, when user accesses
any flash-enabled website (such as www.amd.com).
Wouldn't that be a bug in konqueror-nsplugins? No plugin should be able to
crash the browser
Michael Gilbert wrote:
lightspark is an alternative. Of course, it's also experimental, but
who knows, it may be a bit more stable/complet at this point? I
haven't really looked into it. Just something worth considering...
The end game, which I am increasingly sure will happen by the next
browser-plugin-gnash from backports doesn't make konqueror crash anymore so
someone could identify what changes fix that and include them in 6.0.4. I'm
not sure to be able to do that and upstream is pretty dead especially about
KDE things. Patches welcome.
By the way on KDE I guess it should be
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