Re: Managing multiple nsIWebBrowser instances

On 5/25/2011 2:12 PM, Messica, Shay wrote:
> A more problematic case, is when one browser invokes a Javascript
> function that causes some RPC invoke on the second process. If the
> native application process needs to open event loop or run some long
> operation, we have to pump events while waiting for result. This might
> cause Javascript functions to get called in a nested/re-entrant manner.
What APIs are causing this? In general the idea should be that these 
should be asynchronous APIs, not synchronous calls.
>
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> As far as I understand, there is no way to have each browser run in a
> separate thread. Is there a way to emulate that? Like to pause the
> browser and keep the other browser processing events, and upon result -
> resume that browser? Or is there some other technique that can help with
> this?
Not really. The answer is to change your APIs which could block and make 
them asynchronous.

--BDS