Re: Web browsers, plugins, stability, processes (was: Recommendations...)

2010-06-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: >  Firefox 3.6.4, currently in the late stages of beta, implements > out-of-process plugins (OOPP).  So when Flash explodes, locks up, goes > into an endless loop, etc., you can just kill off that one process, > and the browser is left intact

Re: Web browsers, plugins, stability, processes (was: Recommendations...)

2010-06-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Benjamin Scott writes: > Firefox 3.6.4, currently in the late stages of beta, implements > out-of-process plugins (OOPP). So when Flash explodes, locks up, goes > into an endless loop, etc., you can just kill off that one process, > and the browser is left intact. I've been running it since i

Web browsers, plugins, stability, processes (was: Recommendations...)

2010-06-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Unfortunately, there's now a native > 64-bit Flash plugin and more recent versions of the `flashplugin-nonfree' > package use that instead of using nspluginwrapper; so Flash is back > to taking the browser down with it ... Firefox 3.