Web browsers, plugins, stability, processes (was: Recommendations...)

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jun 16 08:43:30 EDT 2010


Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

>   Firefox 3.6.4, currently in the late stages of beta, implements
> out-of-process plugins (OOPP).  So when Flash explodes, locks up, goes
> into an endless loop, etc., you can just kill off that one process,
> and the browser is left intact.  I've been running it since it was in
> the "nightly build" stage, for this feature alone.  It seems quite
> stable at this point -- prolly even more so than 3.6.3, precisely
> because of OOPP.  Recommended.

Unfortunately the vmware-server administration web-console does not
interact with FF3.6  :-(

-derek

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