785030 - Incorrect crash detection using Flash Debug Player

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[email2markt]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

Despite having:

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled;false
dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled;false
dom.ipc.plugins.processLaunchTimeoutSecs;0
dom.ipc.plugins.parentTimeoutSecs;0
dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs;0

Accessing a website with flash causes firefox to crash (unlike other web browsers).

Usually rolling over one of the dodgy big flash ads on the digitalspy homepage will do it.



Actual results:

This occurs when using the debug Flash Player (any version) on Windows, when a flash error dialog box appears.  If you don't dismiss the box within around 3 nano seconds, the plugin-container completely bombs out (CPU 100%) making the dialog box and Firefox completely unresponsive.




Expected results:

The "Crash Protection", shouldn't be active, and the plugin should be allowed to continue operation without crashing.

Comment 1

[Scoobidiver (away)]

(In reply to email2markt from comment #0)
> dom.ipc.plugins.enabled;false
This preference is no longer taken into account on Vista and above because Adobe doesn't warranty Flash 11.3 and higher work properly with it.

Do you have an URL to reproduce this behavior?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter?

(In reply to Scoobidiver from comment #1)
> (In reply to email2markt from comment #0)
> > dom.ipc.plugins.enabled;false
> This preference is no longer taken into account on Vista and above because
> Adobe doesn't warranty Flash 11.3 and higher work properly with it.
> 
> Do you have an URL to reproduce this behavior?

Comment 3

[email2markt]

I've uploaded a simple example to http://www.base88.com/broken.html, just hit that URL in Firefox.

Please install the Flash Debug Player (any version).  

There should be a setting in Firefox which allows users to see the flash debug message without the browser crashing.  Previously the crash protection could be disabled, which stopped Firefox crashing, however this doesn't seem to work anymore due the reasons explained above.

Comment 4

[Scoobidiver (away)]

Does it work with the protected mode disabled (bottom of http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0)?

Comment 5

[email2markt]

The protected mode did not make a difference.

However, i'm happy to report that my Firefox updated to version 15 over the weekend and I no longer experience the crash.

Thanks guys, I consider this issue resolved (with Firefox 15)