GNU bug report logs - #66068
30.0.50; xwidget-webkit-browse-url makes Emacs abort

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:08:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 66068 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rdiaz02 <at> gmail.com, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net
Subject: bug#66068: 30.0.50; xwidget-webkit-browse-url makes Emacs abort
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:49:03 +0200

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>,  rdiaz02 <at> gmail.com,
>   66068 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:28:30 +0800
> 
> To put this another way, WebKitGTK doesn't support displaying a single
> widget more than once anymore.

Could we work around these problems for now by disallowing the same
widget to be displayed more than once in Emacs?

> There is another library designed for such use-cases as that of
> Emacs, based on the same WebKit library as WebKitGTK, by the name of
> WPE.  The solution to this bug, in my estimation, is rewriting
> xwidgets for that library... any volunteers?

Seconded.
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