663619 - plugin-container uses files from default-profile ?

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Leen Besselink]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110610 Firefox/7.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110610 Firefox/7.0a1

It looks like to that plugin-container does not use the profile files from the profile which was specified when Firefox was started but opens file files from the profile (it needs ?) from the default profile.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
If you visit youtube.com and do the following command for your user on Linux:

lsof -n | grep /home/user/.mozilla/firefox | grep plugin

You would see the plugin-container process has cert8.db and key3.db open from the default profile.



I tested this on my system with Firefox 4 and "Firefox 7".

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Can you attach the specific output you're seeing?

Comment 2

[Leen Besselink]

$ lsof -n | grep /home/leen/.mozilla/firefox  | grep plugin
plugin-co 11867       leen   23r      REG                8,1    360448    1443778 /home/leen/.mozilla/firefox/XXXX.default/cert8.db
plugin-co 11867       leen   24r      REG                8,1     24576    1446918 /home/leen/.mozilla/firefox/XXXX.default/key3.db

$ lsof -n | grep /home/leen/.mozilla/firefox  | grep -v plugin | head -n1
firefox-b  2505       leen  mem-r     REG                8,1     32768    1449863 /home/leen/.mozilla/firefox/XXXX.test/cookies.sqlite-shm

I anonymized it a bit. :-)

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

And how are you launching Firefox? With "-P otherprofile"?

bsmedberg: Sounds like the plugin-container needs to know which profile to use? Or isn't initing PSM/NSS the right way?

Comment 4

[Leen Besselink]

Yes, I specify -P test

And I normally specify -no-remote as well, but I tested it. If I leave that out I still get the same result.

Comment 5

[Leen Besselink]

OK, I moved .mozilla out of the way and tested it with a clean start.

With Firefox 4 created a new /home/user/.mozilla with 2 profiles. Specify -P non-default on the commandline, visit Youtube and lsof shows plugin-container has files open files from the default profile.

PS Shockwave Flash 10.2 d161
PPS As you can see from comment 2, user is actually leen

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The plugin container doesn't use NSS or PSM. It's possible that Flash has decided to poke in our profile itself, which would be bad but not unthinkable. Are you sure that this is a Flash plugin and not a Java plugin? There are Java plugins which are known to poke into a profile for certificates.

We really want a stacktrace at the time the file is opened. I don't know a lot about Linux tracing: is it possible to inject a breakpoint using some tracing tool? I know we could grab a trace using dtrace on mac.

Comment 7

[George Carstoiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110720 Firefox/8.0a1

Leen, do you think you could try what Ben suggested in Comment 6?

Comment 8

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Setting to resolved Incomplete, as no feedback has been given since June.
If anyone can provide any information an feels the issue is still valid, please re-open.