Re: ERROR

[Sam Morris <sam robots org uk>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:19:55 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 00:18 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> 
>> I'm sorry to tell you that there is absolutely nothing we can do about
>> crashes in Adobe's Flash plugin.
> 
> Actually, there is.  It's not exactly Epiphany's responsibility, but
> don't forget that nspluginwrapper gives Epiphany some of the advantages
> of Google Chrome's process model today.  Just wrap the plugin in
> nspluginwrapper and it will run in its own process.  When it dies... you
> don't see the flash app, but the browser is otherwise unaffected.  It is
> my understanding that Fedora wraps all plugins, 32 bit and 64 bit, on
> both 32 bit and 64 bit platforms to gain this advantage, and to allow
> them to treat plugins separately in their SELinux policy.

nspluginwrapper is surprisingly unreliable. I have run it since 
installing Debian's amd64 port on my laptop back in May, and have 
frequently ran into a mysterious state where Flash movies would appear as 
a grey box rather than being run. The only way to fix this was to restart 
the browser. When it did work, nspluginwrapper seemed to make many Flash 
movies a lot slower than they should have been.

So as much as I don't like to admit it, I was immensely glad when Adobe 
released Flash for amd64 and I was finally able to run Flash movies 
reliably and at a reasonable speed. :(

-- 
Sam Morris
https://robots.org.uk/
 
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