Comment 251 for bug 410407

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Paul-Sebastian Manole (brokenthorn) wrote : Re: [Bug 410407] Re: Clicking on items in Flash player does nothing [READ DESCRIPTION]

Yes, fix works for me. I must add though: God! Please rid us of Flash! ;)

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Evan Martin <email address hidden> wrote:
> I am the Chromium developer who fixed this again.
>
> Not that anyone cares anymore, but: the problem was that Flash breaks if GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS isn't set.
> The first fix was to set that in our plugin process before starting Flash.
>
> However, GTK clears the environment variable after initializing.  So
> with nspluginwrapper we would set the variable, initialize GTK, and then
> call into the plugin (nspluginwrapper), which would then spawn its
> helper process which then would run Flash without the variable set.
>
> So as of today's release of Chrome we set the variable, initialize GTK,
> and then immediately set the variable again before calling into the
> plugin.
>
> It seems Firefox may have this second bug as well.
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15232  If I remember tomorrow I will attempt to track down that bug in their bug tracker again.
>
> ** Bug watch added: defect.opensolaris.org/bz/ #15232
>   http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15232
>
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> Clicking on items in Flash player does nothing [READ DESCRIPTION]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410407
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