Re: firefox 3.5.4 broken?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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.

poc