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> The big one for me was, when flash crashes in Chrome, only 1 tab is affected. In firefox the whole browser crashes. Firefox has run Flash in a separate proce
by azakai 14y ago
> The big one for me was, when flash crashes in Chrome, only 1 tab is affected. In firefox the whole browser crashes.
Firefox has run Flash in a separate process for a long time now (2 years, I think?) - so a Flash crash only brings down Flash, not the browser or even the tab for that matter (the rest of the web page will still run).
- ChrisNorstrom 14y agoHuh...I have the latest Firefox 14.0.1 and about 2 days ago I had the whole browser just slow down, crash, and self destruct because of 1 tab. I restarted it, reloaded all the tabs and it crashed again as soon as that 1 tab loaded. I think it was a news aggregator too, so it's not like it was an experimental html5 site or anything. I had to quickly kill it before it loaded on next startup. Perhaps maybe it's not flash then?
- rrmm 14y agosame for me...i'm using ff on linux, flash runs in a process called plugin-container. you can even kill it, which just kills the flash content in browser pages.
- azakai 14y agoYeah, manually killing the flash process is useful. If I see my CPU is being hogged for no reason, killing flash generally fixes it (and Firefox keeps running).