Bug#655841: Please remove Gnash from default Debian install, as it crashes

[peter green <plugwash@p10link.net>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>   
> > Default Debian-6 KDE installs "gnash", an extremely unstable
> > component, that constantly crashes KDE Konqueror, when user accesses
> > any flash-enabled website (such as www.amd.com).
> >     
>
> Wouldn't that be a bug in konqueror-nsplugins? No plugin should be able to
> crash the browser it's running in; at least chromium and I think
> firefox/iceweasel deal with crashing plugins.
>   
Plugins conventionally run in-process which allows them to crash the 
application
they run in. Some browsers have started running plugins in seperate 
processes
to reduce the damage caused by crash prone plugins but it's not how the 
system
was originally designed to work and I wouldn't call it a "bug" for a 
browser not
to do it.