Re: Proposal for serializing NPAPI across processes

Mike Shaver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Chris Jones<[email protected]> wrote:
> Putting plugins in a separate process breaks the current NPAPI threading
> model.  The reason is that a plugin can register callbacks into a native
> event loop in its subprocess.

You might ask the WebKit guys how they approached this for separating
Flash from Safari in a separate process in the most recent Safari
releases.  It would be nice if there were only a single distorted
threading model for plugin authors to work with. :-)

Mike
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