[Bug 211233] www/firefox: frequent crashes

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211233

--- Comment #8 from Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi at aon.at> ---
It is still crashing, even on multiple machines (running the same binaries).

I tried to track it down further: Since there are always two cores, namely
firefox.core and plugin-container.core, I tried to watch any plugin-container
processes. Sure enough, they appear when I open a new tab. And their memory
footprint (SIZE in 'top') increases rapidly. So I started a small script to
kill any plugin-container as soon as it would appear and voila - firefox does
not crash any more.

I found a vaguely similar bug report:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1062571

However, even disabling all plugins does not help, the plugin-container is
still started when opening a new tab. The following plugins are installed
according to 'about:addons':
OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. ............ always
activate
IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.6.2) .................... ask to
activate
Skype Buttons for Kopete ........................................ ask to
activate

At least, the plugin-container is being activated most of the time. Now, on one
machine, after several 'killall plugin-container', it does not start any more
when opening a new tab (this is still the same firefox process). On the other
machine, with the kill script running twice per second, between 4 and 5
plugin-containers are created until no further ones appear.

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