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Date:      Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:33:00 +0200
From:      Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gecko@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: --disable-ipc is disallowed
Message-ID:  <8e8deacee319b46e9009fe05ee04b1fb@bluelife.at>
In-Reply-To: <86lizvn8wz.fsf@gmail.com>
References:  <86lizvn8wz.fsf@gmail.com>

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On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:41:48 +0400, Pan Tsu wrote:
> Mozilla devs recently disabled the option
> 
>   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638755
> 
> mozilla-central (aka trunk) still builds fine on FreeBSD but I wonder
> how long it'll remain so.
> 
> So, do you plan to fix IPC port[1], probably using some pieces from
> www/chromium, or try keep --disable-ipc as long as possible?
> 
> [1] it was removed in r430
> 
>       http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/freebsd-gecko/changeset/430

Thanks for the hint. We will definitely need to talk to the Mozilla
guys about that. The IPC code is just not working on FreeBSD in it's
current state and beat@ created some patch in the firefox 3.6.x days
that is not stable but hopefully a good starting point.

I don't know about the state of that on Mac OSX and also don't know if
they have updated the IPC code because it was already very old when they
introduced it. So for now we need to keep --disable-ipc but it's on our
todo list to fix that issue since they introduced that feature. Help on
this issue is very welcome.

If you don't know what we are talking about:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/lorentz/

"Keep Plugin Crashes Under Control

Firefox "Lorentz" provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux
users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or
Microsoft Silverlight plugins.

If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will not affect the rest of Firefox.
You will be able to reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.

Firefox Lorentz will become part of a future release of Firefox 3.6."

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/



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