This was originally reported to the Debian bugtracker in https://bugs.debian.org/839710 When the comic applet segfaults it causes plasmashell to crash, leaving the user with a blank desktop. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add the comic plasmoid 2. Install the phdcomics in the comic plasmoid 3. Go back in the comic history till you hit http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1889 Actual Results: This causes a segfault. Expected Results: Even if the page can't be parsed it shouldn't cause a segfault. The plasmashell issue (i. e. that an applet can cause it to crash) was originally reported here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370194 But plasma maintainers tagged the bug as invalid.
Funny comic! Cannot reproduce in Plasma 5.17 or 5.18 (i.e. git master) though. Can you?
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