On 04/22/11 11:17, James Wilkinson wrote: > JD wrote: >> I uninstalled it and there was no complaint of any dependency. >> It must have been a remnant from F13 when performed the >> upgrade to F14, and the next yum update simply installed >> updated the F13 version to F14. > Without nspluginwrapper, Firefox plugins run in the same process as > Firefox itself. This means that if a Firefox plugin crashes, it takes > down the entire browser. > > With nspluginwrapper, Firefox plugins run in separate processes. This > should mean that a plugin crash only takes down the plugin, which can be > restarted (for example, by reloading the page). > > Presumably, this also means that the plugins can run on separate > hardware threads¹: whether this makes any difference to browser > responsiveness is something I have neither investigated nor seen anyone > else investigate. > > Hope this helps, > > James. > > ¹ by which I include separate cores > That is interesting info. I will experiment without it, and if the crash of, say flash plugin crashes FF, then I will re-install it.
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