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Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 7 18:55:35 UTC 2008


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> 
>>  At least if I interpret correctly what
>> I was told some time ago nspluginwrapper.x86_64 only does not
>> make any sense. 
> 
> You interpret incorrectly.  nspluginwrapper for your native arch only still
> provides the feature of running all plugins in a separate
> process/address-space, so a plugin crash won't take down your browser with
> it.

Also in rawhide, nspluginwrapper is confined by SELinux so the damage 
caused by security holes in any of the plugins is minimal.

Rahul




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