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Problem with Konqueror and "Load plugins on demand" feature

Bug #189525 reported by megahead13
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KDE Base
Fix Released
Medium
kdebase (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Ubuntu intrepid-updates
Nominated for Hardy by Jonathan Thomas
Nominated for Intrepid by Jonathan Thomas

Bug Description

After the last update of kdebase, I have the following problem: Although I have enabled "Load plugins on demand" feature of Konqueror, flash is no blocked as it should. There isn't the "start plugin" button as usual and flash is loaded normally... I 've tried to solve the problem by deleting konquerorrc, but no use. I 've also created a new user but the problem was there. Any ideas? Thanx in advance...

 PS. Also, although that the last update is supposed to solve the problem with the latest flash plugin (9.0.115) and Xembed, in my case there is still problem with Konqueror and flash. But really I don't care very much about it. Just mentioning...

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Jared Schlicht (jschlicht) wrote :

Flash itself seems to be working again, in Gutsy at least.

If "Load Plugins On Demand Only" is enabled, flash videos show up as gray boxes without the start plugin button.

Unchecking "Load Plugins On Demand Only" makes Flash videos work fine.

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cd311 (cd311) wrote :

same problem here with konqueror 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu2.2 and flash 9.0.31.0

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megahead13 (sigastiras13) wrote :

Jared as I said before, flash objects load normaly, as if I had disabled the "Load Plugins On Demand Only" feature of Konqi. The thing is that I have enabled it... It seems that there is a problem with the latest patches concerning Flash for kde3.5.8, because the problem exists also in KDEmod of ArchLinux. They have these patches there too. On the other hand the original KDE of Arch doesn't have them, so everything is fine there... Anyway, according to the schedule of the KDE team, tomorrow we are going to have KDE 3.5.9, so hopefully everything will be fine again... Cheers ;)

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megahead13 (sigastiras13) wrote :

I 've updated today to kde 3.5.9 Unfortunately no change. The problem is still there :(

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Alan Jenkins (aj504) wrote :

I have the same problem as megahead13.

Changed in kdebase:
status: New → Confirmed
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Alan Jenkins (aj504) wrote :

Also reported as upstream bug: <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155797>.

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megahead13 (sigastiras13) wrote :

Let's hope that it will resolved soon! Thanx Alan :)

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Davor Cubranic (cubranic) wrote :

Konqueror ignores the "load plugins on-demand" setting for Flash both on Feisty and Hardy -- the Flash plugin runs automatically regardless of the value of the setting.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in kdebase:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
Changed in kdebase:
importance: Undecided → Low
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in kdebase:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in kdebase:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

Fixed for 3.5, 4.1 and 4.2.
Targetting intrepid-updaes with upcoming 4.1.4 release.

Changed in kdebase:
milestone: none → intrepid-updates
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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megahead13 (sigastiras13) wrote :

At last!!! Are we going to have the fix available in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS???

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Lobotomy (christophe-curis) wrote :

I second you on this, the fix is more than welcome on 8.04 !

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Relevant websvn links for 3.5 and 4.1 are:
http://websvn.kde.org:80/?view=rev&revision=892605 and http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=892604 respectively.
The fix has been released in Jaunty, but I am nominating the fix for Hardy and Intrepid.

Changed in kdebase:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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megahead13 (sigastiras13) wrote :

Still waiting for the fix on Hardy... Any news about that? Thanx...

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Lobotomy (christophe-curis) wrote :

Hello megahead13,

On my side, I tried the tricky way... and had no more luck:
 - I followed instructions on on this page, to switch to KDE 3.5.10: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-3.5.10
 - ...and gave an (unsuccesfull try) :(

Although I do have Konqui 3.5.10, the "Flash" bug is still present...

If it were me, I would have classified this bug as critical:
 - In contemporary web, it is unthinkable to browse with Flash enabled. This is a killer point for the machine (100% CPU, flash crashs, over-flashy ads, ...)
 - But having no flash at all is not great, as a few sites are not browsable without it...

I totally second you on this, and hope for a resolution someday...

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Changed in kdebase:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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