222627 - Missing option to swallow helper apps

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, enhancement)

Description

[Gustavo Jr. Alves]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031014
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031014

On *nix systems (I dont know if other systems allow this), Mozilla must give an
option to swallow helper application, like plugger does.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Call a pdf file from browser



Actual Results:  
A new window will be open with xpdf (if you don't use plugger)

Expected Results:  
Open xpdf inside browser window

Comment 1

[timeless]

reporter: are you going to write the code to do this?

Comment 2

[Gustavo Jr. Alves]

Yes, if I take approval of this feature.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So the idea here is to just reimplement plugger?  Why?  Would it not make more
sense to have distributors ship Mozilla with plugger and thus use the already
existing perfectly good code to do this?

Comment 4

[Gustavo Jr. Alves]

Mozilla already does what plugger does, except by swallowing apps. I think will
be better if we do not need to care with configuration of plugger to do swallow
and concentrate only on Mozilla.

Even the distributors ship Mozilla with plugger, for administrative purposes, is
more complicated manage two applications instead of one.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There is also the question of what happens if a "swallowed" app crashes.  Does
that affect the rest of Mozilla?

Comment 6

[Gustavo Jr. Alves]

IMHO the ideal is not affect Mozilla. I think only a few apps will be run at a
time and the cost of isolate these process is low. 

What you think about this? You see any negative aspects of this solution?

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not offhand, as long as someone writes and maintains the code....

Comment 8

[Gustavo Jr. Alves]

Attachment: DTD changes to incorpore swallow

This change affect only DTD. Soon I will send the XUL.

Comment 9

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

are you saying you can do this with just xul+js?

Comment 10

[Gustavo Jr. Alves]

No way. I like to send pieces of code as a backup. I done the XUL and DTD
changes, but I reviewing the XUL code. After this I will wrote the rest of code.

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 12

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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