[PyQt] Crash using QWebEngineView with certain web sites

[Detlev Offenbach]

It was in March 2015 and was something with qwebengine and crasher.

On Sunday 07 February 2016, 10:33:41 oliver wrote:
> From Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>:
> > And note that your script will segfault on exit, even with nss 3.20
> > because of object lifetime issues, I posted the workaround for that
> > sometime earlier in this list.
> 
> Anyone remember by any chance the subject of that email, I'd like to have a
> look as I have been seeing crashes on exit for a pyqt app I'm writing.
> Oliver
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:22:14AM +0100, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I amtrying to port the web browser of eric6 from QtWebKit to
> 
> QtWebEngine.
> 
> > > However, I am struggling with a crash occurring for some web sites.
> > > Attached please find a short script that exposes the issue over here on
> > > openSUSE Leap 42.1. I am using Python 3.4.1, Qt 5.5.1 (from installer)
> 
> and
> 
> > > PyQt 5.5.1 (compiled by myself). The script generates a
> 
> SegmentationFault.
> 
> > > Regards
> > > Detlev--
> > > *Detlev Offenbach*
> > > detlev at die-offenbachs.de
> > > 
> > > #!/usr/bin/env python3
> > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> > > 
> > > import sys
> > > 
> > > from PyQt5.QtCore import QUrl
> > > from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
> > > 
> > > # this needs to be imported before a QApplication object is created
> > > from PyQt5 import QtWebEngineWidgets
> > > 
> > > # This is here to mimic my use case (i.e. being in another module)
> > > from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import QWebEngineView
> > > 
> > > if __name__ == "__main__":
> > >     urlStr = "
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/eric-ide/files/eric6/stable"
> 
> > >     app = QApplication(sys.argv)
> > >     v = QWebEngineView()
> > >     v.show()
> > >     v.setUrl(QUrl(urlStr))
> > >     sys.exit(app.exec_())
> > > 
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*Detlev Offenbach*
detlev at die-offenbachs.de
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