Bug#590145: chromium-browser: Upstream ban on gecko-mediaplayer plugin must be removed

[Jonathan Nieder]

forwarded 590145 http://crbug.com/24507
quit

Hi Dimitar,

Dimitar Kavlakov wrote:

 The plugin gecko-mediaplayer was blacklisted in the upstream some
 time ago because of bug #24507, that is speciffic to several other
 Linux distributions. Debian was never amongst the distributions where
 this bug appeared

That means http://crbug/24507:

| Repro: install gecko-mediaplayer, visit digg.com.  Page hangs.
[...]
| Renderer thread asks for plugins:
[...]
| Browser asks plugin to intialize, and it hangs inside glib.
[...]
| This is yet another instance of query plugins out of process
[...]
| Plugins load in two stages: first we dlopen() them to query metadata,
| then later in response to a page request we actually instantiate them.
| The blacklist we had in place only happened at the latter point;
| gecko-mediaplayer causes us to hang in the first step.  So move the
| blacklist check earlier to succesfully blacklist it.

http://code.google.com/p/gecko-mediaplayer/issues/detail?id=64 says:

| As a bug on the Chrome bug tracker says, this is a bug in Chrome.  I believe 
the 
| underlying problem is that Chrome sometimes hangs if something starts a 
nested gtk 
| message loop, which gecko-mediaplayer appears to be doing via gconf in this 
call 
| stack:
[...]
| --without-gconf appears to fix it with the svn tip of gecko-mediaplayer.

i can assure that the
 plugin continues to work fine on Debian with all stable and
 development versions of Chromium

That’s good to hear.  To clarify: does digg.com work?  And just in
case you know: is gecko-mediaplayer for Debian built --without-gconf?

Thanks,
Jonathan



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Bug#590145: chromium-browser: Upstream ban on gecko-mediaplayer plugin must be removed

[Dimitar Kavlakov]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 5.0.375.99~r51029-4
Severity: normal

The plugin gecko-mediaplayer was blacklisted in the upstream some
time ago because of bug #24507, that is speciffic to several other
Linux distributions. Debian was never amongst the distributions where
this bug appeared and gecko-mediaplayer is currently the only plugin
of this kind that is usable, supported and reliable. Because of this
the blacklisting can and must be removed from Debian port.

I am using this plugin constantly and since the ban was forced to
manually edit both chrome and chromium binaries after each upgrade on
each computer. Fortunately this also means i can assure that the
plugin continues to work fine on Debian with all stable and
development versions of Chromium and Chrome released since it was
blacklisted.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.CP1251, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.CP1251 (charmap=CP1251)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to bg_BG.CP1251)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii  chromium-browser-ins 5.0.375.99~r51029-4 page inspector for the chromium-br
ii  libasound2   1.0.23-1shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0  1.30.0-1The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc62.11.2-2Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo21.9.8-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.24-2simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2 0.86-1  simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2   1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat12.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1   2.8.0-2.1   generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6 2.4.0-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1  1:4.4.4-7   GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4  2.28.1-3GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [lib 7.8.1-2 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglewmx1.5 1.5.4-1 The OpenGL Extension Wrangler - ru
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.20.1-1The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libicu44 4.4.1-5 International Components for Unico
ii  libjpeg626b1-1   The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  libnspr4-0d  4.8.4-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d   3.12.6-3Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-01.28.1-1Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0   1.2.44-1PNG library - runtime
ii  libprotobuf6 2.3.0-2.1   protocol buffers C++ library
ii  libstdc++6   4.4.4-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libv8-2.2.18 2.2.18-1V8 JavaScript Engine
ii  libvpx0  0.9.1-1 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3   X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6 2:1.1.2-1   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2  2.7.7.dfsg-4GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1  1:0.9.6-1   X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1   1.1.26-5XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1  1:1.2.0-2   X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  xdg-utils1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3compression library - runtime

chromium-browser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
ii  chromium-browser-l10 5.0.375.99~r51029-4 chromium-browser language packages

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