Should Firefox crash when a third party plugin is used? If a plugin crashes, all other pages should be unaffected - right? What kind of rights should a plugin have?
Personally I think it should be very limited. Programs should be able to say if they want a third party plugin to mess up their behaviour. So in the case of Firefox it should say - hey plugin, do whatever you want - but don't mess with my memory or my files (.mozilla). Also, the user should be able to show my window, and click on my buttons. Also, don't try to phish my user, and make him enter passwords into a window (that he thinks is Firefox)- so there have to be a way for the user to verify that Firefox is Firefox. Also, the plugin can not take screen shot of any Firefox pages, they are private for the user, and since the plugin propably has network access it could send my private email out in the void. So I think this bug should be reopened. It is not just a Firefox bug, but also a kernelbug (file access), and X bug (unique windows, anti screenshot, allowed window inside application). -- crash when clicking a specific link https://launchpad.net/bugs/61193 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
