Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #230, comment 52


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Dec 26, 2014, 10:24:13 AM (10 years ago)
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dmik

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  • Ticket #230, comment 52

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    11Important to mention that these recent hangs/traps happen with more complex Java applets. The simple version checker one seems to work quite stable. And these traps have something to do with the Java side of things as I see in the logs. But the existing logging doesn't tell me the reason. It is just hanging for very long and then the appletveiwer process (java-side) just terminates, sometimes with the Java trap file, sometimes — not.
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     3Another unpleasant thing is that when java.exe terminates unexpectedly, this completely freezes Firefox. It's been waiting forever on the main thread completely blocking any user activity. This is due to bad design of both the Firefox plugin subsystem and the IcedTea plugin itself (which is very low quality code). Firefox cured this by moving all plugin interaction to a separate process (OOP). If I switch to OOP I believe Firefox will remain working but this will leave multiple hung plugin-container.exe processes per each plugin instance (not acceptable for a GP release). And besides, it will not solve appletveiwer.exe crashes anyway. We first need to fix these. Then we will sort out Firefox freezes in case of plugin problems.