severity 375904 wishlist
tags 375904 + help
stop
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006, Matt Taggart wrote:
> Package: galeon, firefox
> Version: 2.0.1-3, 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1
> Severity: serious
Since you're a DD, I should trust your bug report more than average,
but frankly: filing a RELEASE CRITICAL bug for an improvement is not to
my taste.
> If you have the flash plugin installed and go to
> http://gamevideos.com/video/id/4282
Aha, so the Flash plugin causes crashes. Why don't you fix the Flash
plugin?
> I suspect the problem is in the flash
> viewer, but it shouldn't cause the browser to crash.
I don't consider it is possible to offer such a warranty for plugins
written in C/C++ and dlopen()ed by Firefox or XULRunner. This could
typically be done for plugins written in other langages, perhaps
Python, or C#, or JavaScript, but supporting such a functionality for
dlopen()ed code would require a fork() and I fail to imagine who would
want to fork() a process as large as a galeon process.
I would have reassigned this bug to the Flash plugin -- would it have
had a source package in Debian -- but since I'm afraid it's not in
non-free, I will simply keep this request for enhancement in the BTS for
future reference and mark it + help. I was tempted to tag it wontfix,
but perhaps you can come with a patch and prove me wrong when I say
this would be overly complicated?
I suggest you stop using the proprietary plugin for now. gnash is a
free implementation and I think the specs of the Flash format have been
made public to some extents.
Cheers,
--
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
