Recent adobe flash plugin update warning: konqueror freezer, opera troubles

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Hi all,

recently Adobe released official 9,0,115,0 flash plugin. Because this version 
uses GTK2 it only supports web browsers which use this toolkit for GUI 
rendering (Firefox and Seamonkey). Other non GTK2 web browsers are left 
unsupported. This can make troubles for Opera and Konqueror which use Qt 
toolkit. I do not know how situation looks with Opera but Konqueror 3.5.8 
fails totally - freezes and display this on text console:
(Opera crash in the same way but do not know if it freezes or not)

(process:5733): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization 
assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function

(process:5733): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 
`initialization_value != 0' failed

(process:5733): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_clipboard_get_for_display: assertion 
`GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
Adobe Flash Player: gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY); failed. Trying 
to call gtk_init(0,0);

Due to binary nature of flash plugin nothing can be done. Konqueror and Opera 
are going to be fixed in the future.

For now I found a way to restore dead Konqueror:
When Konqueror freezes due to flash content on web page open a window with 
konsole/any other terminal and execute this:
killall nspluginviewer
(you _do_ _not_ have to be root to kill nspluginviewer) however sometimes when 
this trick does not work use: killall -9 nspluginviewer
Konqueror will safely continue to work with removed flash content. :-)

Possible long term workaround:
1. Provide Lunar module with non GTK2 flash 9,0,48,0 which works with 
Konqueror and Opera (AFAIR). This is WIP I only have to find a site with this 
version of flash - Adobe replaced it everywhere with current 9,0,115,0
2. Use flash 9,0,48,0 system wide and use 9,0,115,0 only in home plugins 
directories of FF/SM to protect Konqueror/Opera against flash crash.
3. Check opera-beta module because 9.50 version and later is going to have 
support for new flash.
4. There is no fix for Konqueror now (I do not know any)

Flash 115 is woth keeping for FF/SM because it has cool features:
*better mpeg-4 support
*hw video acceleration by using GLX

The 9,0,48 flash can be moved to flash-plugin module because it is broken now 
and nobody seems to use it (flash 7 is not downloadable anymore so we can 
reuse this module for flash 9).

zbiggy