Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 143030
infinite forks of plugin applications
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Plugins cannot be started correctly. I can't see .pdf or .ps files following links on web page. Plugin applications (xpdf for .pdf, gv for .ps) are forking infinitely until there's no system resources to make another process. It makes web surfing much much harder. Strangely, other plugins (Macromedia Flash, Sun Java 1.5) are working properly, only plugins managed by mozplugger cannot be used. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.7.3-17 firefox-1.0-2.fc3 mozplugger-1.6.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find any page with link to .pdf or .ps files 2. Click on that link 3. Actual Results: xpdf or gv will start in multiple instances until there's no free system resources Expected Results: One instance of plugin application should embed into browser window Additional info: It's very hard to stop this action by not killing X server. If someone has got opened other windows with unsaved works, loss of data may occur.
I've found that it's enough to kill mozplugger-helper to stop infinite forking. The most annoying reaction is during opening files handled by OpenOffice applications. That makes mozilla really hard to browse the Web :(
After recent upgrade of firefox (firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1) the bug still exists and makes web surfing harder.
I've just installed mozplugger-1.7.1-2.i386.rpm from rawhide and it's working properly both with firefox and mozilla browser. Upgrade should be proposed.