[Bug 184964] Re: Firefox API buggy, can cause crash in Firefox

[Roland Orre]

I think my original report has been misunderstood.
First, I can not tell plugin causes crashes, and it is not easily reproducible.
Sometimes firefox runs up to a week, frequenly used, sometimes I have to
restart it several times a day. Usually it crashes when I'm not using it.

A reasonable way to repeat this, could be to take some plugin, modify it
to e.g. address a nul pointer, so the plugin fails to 100 %.

If the API is working OK, firefox should let the faulty plugin die, but not
get affected in any other way.

The firefox I'm running most of the time is currently 1.5.0.13pre
(dapper LTS).

There may be other errors in firefox causing it to crash, to get rid of the
possibility to crash on failing plugins is a first step towards a
stable browser.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 8:18 PM, John Vivirito <gnomefreak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please test with gnash, and any other plugins you have and let me know what exactly you are doing at time of crash or upload crash report found in /var/crash. Can you also give us step by step instructions on how to reproduce this crash.
>  Changing package to flashplugin.
>
>  ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
>  ** Changed in: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
>  Sourcepackagename: firefox => flashplugin-nonfree
>
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>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184964
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