why dont they just automate the crash report
flash done it. EOS.
Mozilla has released a public beta of Firefox "Lorentz," a test version of Firefox 3.6 designed to minimize crashes by running Flash, Silverlight, Java, and other plug-ins as processes separate from the core browser. The open sourcers call these "out of process plug-ins," or OOPP, and they're also under test with the developer …
It even looks like the screen that Chrome gives in similar circumstances- which makes things less confusing, I suppose.
In any case, it's a good move, and always nice to see browsers pinching the *good* ideas from each other- to make things better for the userbase. Jolly good show, hurumble! (etc.)
I would like to complain here that FF 3.6.3 on VISTA sometimes has pretty strange behaviour. First, it takes a lot of time to start up, and then I even managed to LOCK UP my VISTA laptop after looking at a DivX video embedded into a webpage. (Also fiddled with the cookie flusher at that time)
Now I know that DivX is crap, but I certainly should have a chance to launch the Task Manager in order to kill FF !
The power button is in my opinion not part of the Task Manager....
@Mozilla: Could you please look into this and publish a fix soon ? Thank you.
I don't know what it was, but I never had such trouble before. It seems to me that FF and/or DivX do something really weird. A friend of mine told me of something similar with FF.
The issue with slow startups of FF is new with 3.6.3. Mozilla should really look into this and publish a fix for it in 3.6.4 quickly.
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