Do we run JS code in these? I can imagine all sorts of things that would cause a crash if JS code can invoke random dom apis. I however very happy that we are testing <browser remote=true> in a limited fashion with this.
Tom On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Gavin Sharp <ga...@gavinsharp.com> wrote: > I've mentioned this at the engineering meeting, but thought it worth a note > here just to ensure everyone is aware: > > Bug 870100 enabled use of the background thumbnail service in Firefox > desktop, which uses a <browser remote=true> to do thumbnailing of pages in > the background. > > That means that desktop Firefox now makes use of E10S content processes. > They have a short life time (one page load) and are generally triggered by > opening about:newtab when thumbnails are missing or out of date (>2 days > old). > > This has exposed some e10s crashes that previously weren't exposed on > desktop. I've filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899758 to > track them - please hang any other such crashes off that bug. If you're > working in a component that has e10s-related crashes, please fix them :) > > (Bug 891218 is also planning to make use of content processes for some > Social-related functionality. Those remote processes will be longer-lived, > typically having the same lifetime as the parent process.) > > Gavin > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
