137132 - Improve robustness of plugin interface to stop plugins from crashing browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62460

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Matt Fago]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020408
BuildID:    2002040808

Poorly written plugins have been responsible for almost 100% of my Mozilla
crashes. While Mozilla is not directly responsible, IMHO the plugin interface
should be modified to stop a plugin from taking down the entire browser (eg
threads signal handling or whatever).

Users cannot always tell that it is the plugin at fault - it just looks like
Mozilla crashes a lot. Note also that Konqueror does implement such a mechanism
and does not seem to crash on plugins (irregardless of the stability of the rest
of the program).

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to use flash or mis-install java (mostly on linux?). Also some pdf's.


Actual Results:  Plugins often crash entire browser.

Expected Results:  Mozilla handles bad plugins without crashing.

This is an enhancement request, but it would also have fixed almost all of my
crashes. Modify severity and/or platform/os as you deem appropriate.

There are quite a few bugs that this would fix, but I don't have the time to
track them all down. Sorry.

It would have been nice to see this make 1.0, but perhaps 1.1 or 1.2?

Comment 1

[rubydoo123]

AS an enhancement request, setting this to future and will set a disposition 
after review. It would be desirable to be able to catch the plug-in crash 
without crashing the app.

Comment 2

[av (gone)]

This is a dup. Somebody on the cc list may know the right bug number just from
the top of their mind. Besides, we do already have some catching code on Windows.

Comment 3

[Matt Fago]

Perhaps the OS/platform needs to be changed, but the problem certainly exists on
Linux. Every plugin I have tried on Linux has crashed Mozilla at least a few times.

I have been following several seperate plugin crash bugs and had not seen a
unified effort to address the overall interface issue. If there is a dup, I was
not able to find it. Anyone?

Comment 4

[serge (gone)]

for linux it's a dup of bug 62460

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62460 ***

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

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