[mythtv-users] Why does my mythbrowser crash?

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 02/01/2011 07:26 PM, Rick wrote:
> 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.
> 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.

Utilities/Setup|Setup|Info Center Settings|Web Settings, then set the 
browser command.

Mike