Re: Ubuntu 12.04: Serious problems with operapluginwrapper-native

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote:

> If the plug-in itself freezes or crashes, the pluginwrapper will freeze
> or crash.  But opera will keep running.  Unfortunately, if the
> pluginwrapper freezes, opera will freeze until it decides that the
> pluginwrapper is unlikely to come back to life.  This is because of the
> way plug-ins are designed.  Once opera decides not to wait for the
> plug-in any more, it can no longer let the plug-in run, so it kills it.

Basically there's nothing wrong with this design; my point was simply, 
that something is not working as it should; this "something" could be 
either in Opera or the components it utilizes (which would be 
desastrous), *or* in my system (which would be my individual problem). 
If Opera's bug tracker isn't flooded with complaints, it's probably more 
or less a problem of a limited number of individual systems (probably 
64bit, maybe Nvidia GPU).

However, the issue is *not* that specific web pages make a (Flash) 
plugin crash; this behaviour is systematic and occurs on *every* page 
load where Flash or other multmedial content is embedded. If a website 
has, for example, an image slideshow on top of all pages, the browser 
will freeze on every page load, icluding "back" navigation; this 
includes also wide areas of Amazon's shop, where MP3 tracklistings also 
trigger those freezes.

And, again, this is not a problem of the web content itself; browsing 
the same pages with Chromium is smooth, and Opera has become usable 
again for me - after disabling those plugins in Opera.

Greetings, -A.
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