Qt Browser Plugins make the browser unresponsive
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qt4-x11 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Qt provides a solution for implementing browser plugins for web browsers which support the Netscape LiveConnect API. However the simple 'Hello World' example fails to run on Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04. It simply hangs in both Firefox and Epiphany making the browser unresponsive.
Looking at the same code compiled and running on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), Fedora 9 and Debian Lenny works. Therefore I believe it is Ubuntu specific problem introduced between 8.04 and 8.10.
The Qt site on the plugin is http://
To test you need to download, build and install the open source version of the plugin. The install path for Firefox is /usr/lib/
Once installed, visiting the example page http://
Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- QT Browser Plugins make the browser unresponsive + Qt Browser Plugins make the browser unresponsive |
I can not confirm this, when I compile the plugin and copy it to /usr/lib/ mozilla/ plugins/ the example page works as expected.
Are you running the plugin on the same system that compiled it?
If not, does the system have the Qt libraries installed (libqt4-gui)?
Is there any output from the command line when you run firefox from there?