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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-36349

Disable or blacklist a Webkit plugin : Do not load library

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Won't Do
    • P2: Important
    • None
    • 4.8.5, 5.2.0
    • WebKit
    • None
    • ArchLinux, package installed: extra/qt5-webkit 5.2.0-3 | AUR/okularplugin-git
    • 2292b2a96ae2e3afb0d51e7148bccdf4e41596d9

    Description

      Currently there is no API to blacklist or disable a specific Webkit plugin.
      Moreover setting the global attribute QWebSettings::PluginsEnabled to false do not prevent the loading of the library / dll.

      If the plugin is not compatible with Qt5, for example the plugin libokularplugin.so is linked against Qt4, the application segfault...

      An extract of the stack (the full stack is attached):

      WebCore::PluginPackage::fetchInfo
      WebCore::PluginPackage::createPackage
      WebCore::PluginDatabase::refresh
      WebCore::PluginDatabase::installedPlugins
      PlatformStrategiesQt::getPluginInfo
      WebCore::PluginData::initPlugins
      WebCore::PluginData::PluginData
      create	PluginData.h
      WebCore::Page::pluginData
      WebCore::DOMPluginArray::pluginData
      WebCore::DOMPluginArray::canGetItemsForName
      

      There is already a function PluginPackage::isPluginBlacklisted() to do that, but everything is hard coded...
      There is no public API, and the private API (QWebPluginDatabase) does not provide a way to prevent the loading of the plugin library

      Attachments

        1. fbplugin_patch.zip
          1 kB
          Bela Kiss
        2. fbplugin.zip
          2.34 MB
          Seth Call
        3. stack-plugin.txt
          5 kB
          Benjamin Robin
        4. trace-qt-5.4.1.txt
          3 kB
          Benjamin Robin
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