On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 10/30/2009 06:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:38 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>>> Well I can reproduce the segfaults semi-deterministically:
>>>
http://www.paulmccartney.com
>>>
>>> Firefox-3.5.4 either immediately dies, or dies after a little bit of
>>> browsing.
>>
>> The standard response to FF problems is "have you tried running it in
>> safe-mode"? I'm surprised no-one has said it so far. Many problems are
>> actually caused by plugins rather than FF itself.
> True - nevertheless, if a plugin is able to tear down firefox, firefox
> itself is broken, too.
Not so. Plugins and extensions don't run in a sandbox in current
versions of FF. Future versions will be different.
You don't have to have a sandbox for this. All that would be required is
a bit of more or less sophisticated error handling/signal catching.
Ralf