Philip Chee wrote:
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
[crash] 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
So if I understand correctly, plugins are /mostly/ isolated, but not
completely.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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