On 25/03/2013 17:33, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Could one or more of the devs clarify the situation with plugins? Are > they truly isolated so that they can't possibly bring down the SeaMonkey > program, or can they still do so? > > I've personally experienced crashes of Flash and other plugins that did > as expected -- I got the Lego icon and a clickable link to reload the > applet, while SM survived undamaged. But a thread the other day seemed > to describe a case where SM itself was brought down by a Flash crash.
Running plugins in a separate process does isolate crashes in the plugin code on the whole. This isn't to say that a misbehaving plugin can never cause the main Firefox (or SeaMonkey) process. For example a plugin can trigger a bug in the ipc[1] code itself. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
