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[Bug 530032] [NEW] Web browsers can freeze the whole system

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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:12:09 -0000
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I COULD NOT FIND A WAY TO TARGET THIS REPORT TO UBUNTU DEVELOPERS, PLEASE FORWARD TO OPERATING SYSTEM DEVELOPERS OR SIMILAR.


using a laptop IBM Thinkpad R60.

Firefox can crash/lock the whole system when browsing a map in Google
Maps.

Firefox can crash/lock the whole system when browsing Flash content.

Is it possible to prevent individual processes from crashing the whole
system?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar  1 15:11:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete


** Tags: apport-bug apport-collected i386 needs-reassignment
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Web browsers can freeze the whole system
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/530032
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