323442 - GTKMozEmbed doesn't work if you run it in thread

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: GTK Widget, defect)

Description

[Ahmad Twaijiri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060107 Firefox/1.5

I'm trying to use gtkmodembed in a C GTK program, it's working fine
but my problem is that gtkmodembed doesn't load a URL if you call
"gtk_moz_embed_load_url" inside a thread

my question is this a problem in my code or it's simply doesn't
support threads (if there is any maillist for gtkmodembed please let
me know) ?

here is an example from my code :

main function :
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g_thread_init (NULL);
gdk_threads_enter();
..
       gtk_moz_embed_set_comp_path(MOZILLA_LIB_PATH);
       gtk_moz_embed_set_profile_path(MOZILLA_PROFILE_PATH,"gwiki");
       browser = gtk_moz_embed_new();
       g_thread_create(&my_thread,"http://www.gnome.org", FALSE, NULL)
..
gdk_threads_leave ();
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my_thread function :

       gtk_moz_embed_load_url(browser, "http://www.gnome.org"); //
This function doesn't work because we called it from a thread, this is
not the case with other normal GTK widgets

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Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ahmad Twaijiri]

BTW: I know I don't have to put "gtk_moz_embed_load_url" in thread in order to load a URL but I need it like that in order to generate the html file (it takes 15 minites) and then load the URL

Comment 2

[Nathan Conrad]

Bug 283300 seems to be the same issue (but that bug has expired). I am a developer of Liferea, and this is a problem for us since our application is threaded.

We've found that if one disables the embed tag, it will freeze almost never.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

pertty sure that this is a dup of some other bug.  The summary of this problem is that gecko/mozilla can't be run from threads other than the main thread.

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Embedding: GTK Widget isn't a thing, closing.