Bug 31007 - [Gtk] Browser should tolerate plug-in (plugin) malfunctions, like with a separate (own) process
Summary: [Gtk] Browser should tolerate plug-in (plugin) malfunctions, like with a sepa...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Plug-ins (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug...
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Reported: 2009-11-02 04:04 PST by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2014-04-08 18:24 PDT (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos 2009-11-02 04:04:42 PST
Hello

This is a bug opened for tracking the same issue seen in firefox (and gecko based browsers):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156493

In summary, the problem is that, currently, webkit browsers also crash when flash plugin (or a different plugin) crashes. The wanted behavior would be that a plugin crashing wouldn't crash all the browser. This is what is done supposedly by Chrome browser. I wrongly thought that this was solved with webkit but, after sending https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600333 (with this backtrace https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=trace.html&trace_id=218723 ) they told me that flash plugin was still causing whole browser to crash.

I have also searched here before and have found a lot of reports related with crashes caused by flash plugin, then, as it's closed-source, maybe would be better to try to make webkit not to crash when plugin crashes.

Thanks a lot
Comment 1 Martin Robinson 2014-04-08 18:24:34 PDT
Oh man. Plugin process!