firefox 3.5.4 broken?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 10/31/2009 05:35 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 03:52 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> A semantic quibble.
No. Error handling is a matter of a program's fundamental design. 
Unfortunately it's a subject many programmers don't take into account.

> The point is that the architecture has to be
> designed to deal with arbitrary behaviour on the part of plugins or
> extensions and currently it isn't.
May-be, I am not familiar with firefox's source-code.

Anyway, to me this reads as "firefox" suffers from substantial 
fundamental design flaws :(

Ralf