nspluginwrapper

[James Wilkinson]

JD wrote:
> I uninstalled it and there was no complaint of any dependency.
> It must have been a remnant from F13 when performed the
> upgrade to F14, and the next yum update simply installed
> updated the F13 version to F14.

Without nspluginwrapper, Firefox plugins run in the same process as
Firefox itself. This means that if a Firefox plugin crashes, it takes
down the entire browser.

With nspluginwrapper, Firefox plugins run in separate processes. This
should mean that a plugin crash only takes down the plugin, which can be
restarted (for example, by reloading the page).

Presumably, this also means that the plugins can run on separate
hardware threads¹: whether this makes any difference to browser
responsiveness is something I have neither investigated nor seen anyone
else investigate.

Hope this helps,

James.

¹ by which I include separate cores

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