[maemo-developers] Debugging the browser

[From: Akos Putz]

Hi,

On 10/4/07, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hm.  I though debug packages should be available for all libraries
> that are open source (hildon, limatchbox etc)?

Well, I suppose this is not the case :) (Or I did something wrong)

> >> Is the problem something which you cannot debug on x86?
> >
> > Yes, the opera based browser, which does not exist on x86. Or am I
> > missing something?
>
> Um.  I thought you were using the new browser from Garage.
> With Opera you're basically screwed because there are no
> debug symbols available for it.  Same thing with Flashplayer.

Yes, this is the problem. The other (next) one is, that the supplied
opera8 does not seems to have full NPAPI support (or it is broken
somehow). Do you have eventually any informations, which plugin
interface the flashplayer plugin uses? NPAPI or the opera-specific
GUGI API?

> Can you reproduce the same problem with the Mozilla based browser?

No, it starts up and initializes the plugins just fine. It has other
problems with its NPAPI implementation, NPP_SetWindow() will be called
repeatedly with two different window dimensions, which causes my
plugin to constantly rescale and flicker. But this will be an another
issue in an another email :)

But opera is the default browser for the N800, so I would really like
to support it out-of-the-box, without forcing the user to download and
install the Mozilla based browser.

--
Akos