nspluginwrapper

[JD]

On 04/22/11 11:17, James Wilkinson wrote:
> 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
>
That is interesting info.
I will experiment without it, and
if the crash of, say flash plugin crashes FF,
then I will re-install it.

Cheers,

JD