firefox 3.5.4 broken?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 10/30/2009 07:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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