Re: [Gnash-dev] Plugin crashes

[strk]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 08:00:23AM -0700, Rob Savoye wrote:
> On 02/11/11 07:33, strk wrote:
> 
> > Both me, Gabriele and Benjamin can easily reproduce the crashes
> > of the plugin, on both chromium and firefox.
> 
>   If you were paying attention, everyone is getting the plugin crash,
> myself included.

The tracker must be underused.
Both bugs are missing follow ups by "everyone".
It would help to get a notice on the record about which browsers
(and versions) show that behavior and which one don't
(pere seems to be saying he doesn't get it ?)

> I assume we missed this as most just do "make install"
> and not "make install install-plugin". But yes, this is a definite blocker.

Glad we agree on the severity :)

>   I believe it's a bug in the patch that added support for executing the
> JavaScript side of ExternalInterface.

Ben reported a revert of that patch did not fix it.

> > I'd rather drop the EI support and get a stable browsing experience
> > if the author isn't willing to find and fix the bug.
> 
>   Author of which code ? Dropping all of EI is downright silly, and not
> exactly a trivial change.

Author of the ExternalInterface code.

Yes, I've noticed EI got intermixed with how we do getURL and fscommand.
That might have been an unfortunate decision indeed.

>   Either way, I gave up getting the release out for the Fedora and
> Ubuntu code freezes. They'll have to grab it as a future update. While I
> do appreciate all this last minute testing and bug fixing, it really
> needed to have happened several weeks ago...

#31766 was submitted on 03 Dec 2010 as Important
#32044 was submitted on 04 Jan 2011.

That's what I meant by "going through the bug tracker"

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