[mythtv-users] Why does my mythbrowser crash?

[Rick]

On 01/31/2011 10:42 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/31/2011 09:06 PM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>> On 1 February 2011 12:02, Rick wrote:
>>> I compile myth myself on a Mandriva 2010.1 distro. Whenever I launch
>>> mythbrowser to go to Youtube or Cnn, etc... it crashes with the errors
>>> below. Any suggestions
>> most likely Due to Flash, there are plenty of reports of this
>> happening on
>> the lists
>
> Yep, you need to use Flash 10.0 or below*** or if you use 10.1+, you
> have to use Qt-Webkit 2.0, which has a workaround for the bug in Flash.
> Qt 4.7+ ships Qt-Webkit 2.0.
>
> Note, also, that fixing Flash would take all of 1 line of code
> (literally)--but since it's proprietary, that's not an option, so we
> have to include a workaround in the open-source browser, which requires
> you to update a low-level framework on your system, which likely
> requires you to update a huge number of applications. (Or, you /could/
> manually backport the workaround to an earlier version of Qt and compile
> it with the patch, but that's also a less-than-desirable approach.)
>
> Sorry, you may have noticed my disdain for Flash.
>
> Mike
>
> *** Note, also, that many sites (including Hulu) have Flash version
> checks that may prevent your using older versions of Flash.
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Thank you, Mike.  Is it possible to call firefox in place of 
mythbrowser?  I can't remember what version of myth it was, but 
mythbrowser used to be a separate executable and there was a setup 
screen where you could change the executable called.  For certain url's 
I would call firefox.