Re: Crashes

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:09:15PM CST, Ken Case <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Robert Love wrote:
>>
>> All I can say is that other browsers don't crash near as much for me and 
>> in my NeXT days OmniWeb was _very_ stable.  How did we get this way?
>
> Four out of your last five crash reports were in the Flash plug-in, and the 
> fifth crash (this evening) was in JavaScript.  On the NeXT, none of those 
> crashes were possible because we had neither Flash nor JavaScript.

In my own experience, most of my crashes were related to either
JavaScript (sometimes) or a plug-in (mostly, and mostly Flash).

> The JavaScript crash happened when it was executing one of its window 
> timers; the Flash crashes all happened when we simply gave it a chance to 
> run (i.e., when we're sending it a "null" event).  None of that code is 
> ours, sadly, or it would be a lot easier for us to fix.  Still, anything 
> you remember (even something as simple as "OmniWeb crashed while I wasn't 
> at the keyboard, but I think I might have had three youtube tabs open") 
> might help us reproduce the crash here--and if we can reproduce the crash 
> we might be able to find some way to avoid it (even when the crash isn't in 
> our code).

<dream>
How about make each tab run in its own child process?  So if
there is crash with some content, only that tab is affected.
</dream>


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Eugene
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