Bug#490553: Recommend npapi plugins?

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:53:34PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:14:05PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 04:06:30PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > Package: libwebkit-1.0-1
> > > Version: 1.0.1-2
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Tags: patch
> > > 
> > > Now that webkit supports them, how about Recommending plugins for the two
> > > most commonly found web nuissances?
> > 
> > Mmmmm I'm not very thrilled with recommends on these, especially since
> > recommends are installed by default, now... and knowing how gnash and
> > gcj plugins are far from being stable,
> 
> I'm not sure about the new icedtea plugin, but gnash is fairly stable now.  It
> doesn't support many websites, but it's very unlikely that it will crash your
> browser, because it runs in a separate process.

Well, that is no guarantee a crash or freeze won't happen even with a
separate process. npviewer does use a separate process ; that doesn't
prevent browser freezes...

Mike