the plugin does not work in chromium-browser (7.0.536.2 (60818) Ubuntu 10.10 from ppa))

[andrey i. mavlyanov]

Binary package hint: gecko-mediaplayer

the gecko-mediaplayer plugin in maverick just not loading in chromium (firefox 3.6.x work just excellent!)

aim@aim-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy gecko-mediaplayer
gecko-mediaplayer:
  Installed: 0.9.9.2-1
  Candidate: 0.9.9.2-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.9.2-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
aim@aim-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
  Installed: 7.0.536.2~r60818-0ubuntu1~ucd~dev1
  Candidate: 7.0.536.2~r60818-0ubuntu1~ucd~dev1
  Version table:
 *** 7.0.536.2~r60818-0ubuntu1~ucd~dev1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/dev/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6.0.472.63~r59945-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages

please, let me know if you need any additional information

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

Known chrome bug, due to problems in the chrome main loop, gecko-mediaplayer has been specifically disabled by the chrome team.

[andrey i. mavlyanov (andrey-mavlyanov)]

So, should I fill a bug report on gecko-mediaplayer then?

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

It was reported on chromium bug tracker : http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24507
The plugin is currently blacklisted because it crashes. A solution proposed is to disable gconf support in gecko-mediaplayer, which seems to fix the problem.

[andrey i. mavlyanov (andrey-mavlyanov)]

Yes it was. But I've just renamed gecko*so into smth*so and works just fine (and many users of chrome reported that it works ok with new chrome/chromium). May be it's time to whitelist gecko-mplayer back? At least in Ubuntu's builds?