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Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by cmelbye »

m104 wrote: post #3

Much praise to the Google Chrome team for handling this sort of thing gracefully.

Yeah, it also looks like Safari's recent improvements in terms of plugins that they introduced in Snow Leopard have successfully prevented this problem from taking down the whole browser.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by icco »

vito wrote: post #9

Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu x64, Flash v10.0.32.18ubuntu1, seems to survive. Chrome survives too, unsurprisingly. Come to think of it, doesn't Firefox have plugin crash safety in place now? Midori does insta-crash though.

ff 3.5 on a similar setup crashes. 3.6 was when ff made itself less vulnerable to this sort of thing, following webkit's and chrome's ideas on isolating plugins.

Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)

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Post by mmastrac »

icco wrote: post #15
vito wrote: post #9

Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu x64, Flash v10.0.32.18ubuntu1, seems to survive. Chrome survives too, unsurprisingly. Come to think of it, doesn't Firefox have plugin crash safety in place now? Midori does insta-crash though.

ff 3.5 on a similar setup crashes. 3.6 was when ff made itself less vulnerable to this sort of thing, following webkit's and chrome's ideas on isolating plugins.

Are you sure that's in 3.6? My 3.6 build doesn't have the "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled" key in about:config.

I'm pretty sure it'll be landing in 3.7. Here's the tracking bug that shows what's left to fix on it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539055

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