[Bug 191126] [NEW] Closing pages with Flash9 ends Gnome session

[Daeng Bo]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nspluginwrapper

In addition to the expected general buggines of using a wrapper for
plugins on an architecture they weren't designed for, viewing some pages
with Flash (9) in either Epiphany or Firefox causes the entire seesion
to end sometimes, killing all working programs. Blech. What a nasty bug.

Environment:
Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64 up to date
Core2 Duo
Intel chipset
2GB RAM

Steps to reproduce:
This seems a little random and hard to reproduce on a single page. Basically, you need to view a large number of Flash video sites. YouTube doesn't seem to work. Go to Digg.com and start looking through all the videos. There are no system slowdowns before the problem occurs.

When you close a tab containing "the last straw" video, the session ends
and you are thrown into a login at GDM. Any work you had going at the
time is lost.

Since the crash is apparently random, I suspect that nspluginwrapper is
behaving badly and not closing correctly when a tab is closed,
ultimately draining enough that the session ends. There are no symptoms
leading up to it, though. There is a possibly related problem of the
browser freezing. When its killed, several nsviewer.bin windows
generally pop up and have to be forcibly killed, as well.

** Affects: nspluginwrapper (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Closing pages with Flash9 ends Gnome session
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191126
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