Firefox Lorentz Keeps Plugin Crashes Under Control 115
pastababa writes "A beta of the Firefox Lorentz project is now available for download and public testing. Eming reports Firefox 'Lorentz' provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in plugins. Plugins run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted. The process-isolation feature has been in Google's Chrome from the beginning. Chrome sandboxes individual tabs, and the crash of one tab does not affect the running of the rest of Chrome browser. Firefox currently isolates only Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime, and Microsoft Silverlight, but will eventually isolate all plugins running on a page. Mozilla encourages users to test Firefox 'Lorentz' on their favorite websites. Users who install Firefox 'Lorentz' will eventually be automatically updated to a future version of Firefox 3.6 in which this feature is included."
Re:This is all fine and dandy, (Score:5, Funny)
I'd prefer they run on a separate machine. Someone else's machine in fact.
Re:Ugh, another Chrome story (Score:1, Funny)
They have sailed past 1.0 and, as far as I know, are up to v5.0.
It's clear they're trying to pseudo-legitimately get the highest version-numbered browser in existence, so they can have people going "Look ma, Microsoft has the Internet 9!" "Pshaw pa, Google's got the Internet 15!".
Re:This is all fine and dandy, (Score:1, Funny)
With all the rage about cloud computing they should make the plugins run on the web.
Re:Yay! (Score:3, Funny)
I think it's a combination of Flash! and Java but other things seem to take it out too.
Did Yahoo! buy out Flash while I wasn't looking?
Chrome sandboxing (Score:3, Funny)
> Chrome sandboxes individual tabs, crashes of one tab does not affect the running of the rest of Chrome browser.
Will Chrome also restart sentences in the event of comma splices?
Re:Plugins, not extensions! (Score:3, Funny)
The plugin that gives me by far the most trouble (on Windows) is Adobe Acrobat Reader. I can already restart that (by killing the process) without crashing firefox.
There are much better products even on Windows which provide the same functionality as Acrobat Reader. E.g. the built-in Remote Desktop is quite ok these days, and TeamViewer is very nice.
Re:Plugins, not extensions! (Score:3, Funny)
Anything is better than running Acrobat Reader, even if it doesn't accomplish the same purpose.