Problem
In Fedora 44 Live images (all of them except Workstation, i.e. KDE, XFCE, LXDE, etc), the installer crashes when you enter the Storage Editor (available from the three-dots menu in top right) and interact with any drop-down lists. Example of a drop-down list:
When you interact with these drop-downs, there’s a high likelihood that the whole installer crashes.
Cause
A bug in QtWebView causes the crash.
Related Issues
Bugzilla report: 2483236 – QtWebView browser applications (like slitherer) crash when opening native HTML dropdowns
Workarounds
Don’t start the installer (or quit it if you started it already). Start terminal (Konsole in KDE) and edit a config file:
sudo nano /etc/anaconda/profile.d/fedora.conf
Find this part:
# The default browser for the Web UI.
webui_web_engine = slitherer
and change it to:
# The default browser for the Web UI.
webui_web_engine = firefox
Close the editor (Ctrl+X → Y → Enter), and run the installer, either from a desktop launcher, or from a terminal:
liveinst
The installer should no longer crash when using drop-down lists.