Mozilla girds Firefox with 'hang detector'
The next version of Firefox will include a "hang detector" that automatically terminates plug-ins that quit talking to the outside world.
Set to arrive next week - after a bit of a delay – Firefox 3.6.4 is designed to minimize crashes by running Flash, Silverlight, Java, and other plug-ins as processes separate from the core browser. Mozilla calls this OOPP, for out-of-process plug-ins, and as part of this effort, says Firefox man Benjamin Smedberg in a blog post, the open sourcers have also included their hang detector.
If a plug-in process takes more than 10 second to respond to a call, Firefox will terminate the process and display the OOPP "crash" UI that gives the user the opportunity to reload the plug-in.
Also: Firefox 3.6.4 On The Verge Of Its Final Descent
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