That's an interesting idea too...
Maybe we still want to know about the crashes.  Maybe the crashes could be
annotated so that we could filter them out easily on the server-side, but
still be
able to know how often users are experiencing them.

-Darin


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Mike Belshe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe turn of crash reporting when these flags are enabled?
> Mike
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Wow... we definitely have re-entrancy bugs with --in-process-plugins that
>> are not worth fixing.
>> Command line options like this are, however, kind of nice since it allows
>> you to tell
>> a user to try the flag to see if it fixes a particular problem.  Maybe we
>> could allow the
>> option but show a MessageBox at startup warning them about the fact that
>> the option
>> is unsupported and potentially hazardous to the stability of Chrome.
>>
>> -Darin
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:16 PM, John Abd-El-Malek <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I was looking at the second top crasher in 2.0.166.1, and it turned out
>>> that these users are running with --in-process-plugins.  This turns off the
>>> sandbox and runs plugins in the renderer process.
>>> So far we've exposed all the internal command line switches to all users,
>>> but I'm wondering if that has outlived its usefulness. We don't test
>>> either mode on chromebot, while in-process-plugins doesn't even have any
>>> tests. I don't think spending much development time on these modes is worth
>>> the opportunity cost.
>>>
>>> The flip side is in the past they have been useful to have around, i.e.
>>> when someone complains about a bug, we sometimes ask them to try these
>>> modes.
>>>
>>> So I propose that we disable these flags in release builds, and if we
>>> want to test on users, we can point them towards debug builds off the build
>>> server. Obviously this is more work for them, but I think this avoids
>>> distracting us with looking at modes that are only used by a minority of
>>> users, and which we know are already broken. The bigger issue is why these
>>> users used those modes. I think in the past we might have suggested it to
>>> people if they had performance problems etc, but hopefully these are taken
>>> care of by now, and if not, better to know it anyways by having these users
>>> use the standard multi-process mode.
>>>
>>> Any strong opposition to this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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