More on GTK3/flash situation
The "blocker bug" for Firefox adopting GTK3 has been this long list of GTK3 bugs-but which ends with the flash gtk3/gtk2 in same process issue.
In it omeone proposed this fix, originally blocked by a later resolved bug:
"WebKitGtk3-2.0 already has a fix that we could adopt (if applicable):
'The WebkitGTK+ solution for the Flash problem was implemented in version
2.0 by having a second process linked against GTK2 to run browser plugins
while Webkit itself is linked to GTK3. This makes Flash work again.' "
"It's covered by Bug 624422 where two libxul are build and plugin-container is linked to the gtk2 one."
Bug 624422 is now marked "resolved-fixed" Allow GTK3 libxul to load GTK2 plugins
If so, Firefox devs may be able to get past the Flash issue at least, but the filechooser widget is still a
mess beginning with GTK3.14. I suppose they could write a custom widget for that...
The "blocker bug" for Firefox adopting GTK3 has been this long list of GTK3 bugs-but which ends with the flash gtk3/gtk2 in same process issue.
In it omeone proposed this fix, originally blocked by a later resolved bug:
"WebKitGtk3-2.0 already has a fix that we could adopt (if applicable):
'The WebkitGTK+ solution for the Flash problem was implemented in version
2.0 by having a second process linked against GTK2 to run browser plugins
while Webkit itself is linked to GTK3. This makes Flash work again.' "
"It's covered by Bug 624422 where two libxul are build and plugin-container is linked to the gtk2 one."
Bug 624422 is now marked "resolved-fixed" Allow GTK3 libxul to load GTK2 plugins
If so, Firefox devs may be able to get past the Flash issue at least, but the filechooser widget is still a
mess beginning with GTK3.14. I suppose they could write a custom widget for that...
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