For more details about IPDL, you can refer to the introductory tutorial that has been published at the Mozilla developer website.Shockwave (Flash) Player is always a troublesome plugin yet you can’t really browse the web normally without it. Mozilla created its own protocol, called IPDL, that is used to define the messages that are passed between the processes through the IPC layer. In the latest developer preview build, it is used to facilitate interaction between the isolated plugins and the rest of the browser. Although Mozilla has already taken major steps towards implementing holistic multiprocess browsing, the plugin isolation is the only part that will land in the next release.Īs we explained last year when we first covered Electrolysis, Mozilla has adopted parts of Chrome's interprocess-communication (IPC) implementation. Similar functionality is already available in Internet Explorer and Chrome. Electrolysis will make it possible for a browser crash to be isolated to a tab or group of tabs rather than affecting the entire browser.

It's part of a broader Mozilla project called Electrolysis that seeks to eventually bring full support for multiprocess browsing to Firefox. A developer preview that was recently made available to users offers an early look at the new plugin crash protection. Mozilla is preparing to introduce a similar feature in the next version of Firefox. Several mainstream browsers isolate Flash and other plug-ins in separate processes in order to prevent an unstable plug-in from crashing the entire browser. As Adobe representatives exhibit an increasingly dismissive attitude about Flash's technical deficiencies, the browser vendors have stepped up to address the problems and are finding ways to insulate their users from Flash's poor security and lack of stability. One can only assume that he has never used the software.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch claims that the company's ubiquitous Flash plug-in doesn't ship with any known crash bugs.

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