Bug#695461: iceweasel crashed after using the VLC plugin

[Mike Hommey]

reassign 695461 browser-plugin-vlc
thanks

On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 03:45:07PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 10.0.11esr-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Iceweasel crashed while I wasn't using it. It didn't produce a core dump,
> so that I can't give much information. A few minutes before I was using
> the VLC plugin on an mp3 file, and when it finished, the plugin behaved
> in a buggy way (I couldn't replay the mp3). I closed the tab before
> doing something else on another desktop... then Iceweasel crashed.
> 
> Note: crashes of Iceweasel are very rare, so that I suppose that there
> may be a relation with the VLC plugin.

Out-of-process plugin is not enabled for libvlcplugin.so (see preference
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libvlcplugin.so, which is false), so it's likely
to be a crash of the plugin taking the browser with it.

Iceweasel 17 (in experimental) has out-of-process enabled for the vlc
plugin. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544088 for
details why it wasn't really possible before.

Mike