Presumably, most of the time it’s Safari or some other browser playing Flash content. That doesn’t mean Flash somehow causes crashes in any various app. In other words, in Apple’s giant pile of aggregate crash reports - from all app crashes on all Macs from all users who click the button to send these reports to Apple - Flash accounts for more of them than anything else.
But during the week at WWDC, I confirmed with several sources at Apple who are familiar with the aggregate Crash Reporter data, and they confirmed that “plugins” was a euphemism for “Flash”. Serlet didn’t name any specific guilty plugins.
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As for why such crash resistance was worth implementing, Serlet explained that, based on data from the Crash Reporter application built into Mac OS X - the thing that asks if you’d like to send crash data to Apple after a crash - the most frequent cause of crashes across all of Mac OS X are (or at least were, pre-Snow Leopard) “plugins”. Serlet’s stated reason on stage was “crash resistance”, as mentioned above. You get a broken little rectangle in the page where the plugin was executing, but the browser itself stays running.Īpple did this for two reasons. Rather than run within Safari’s application process, web content plugins now run in their own process, so if they crash, they (usually) don’t crash Safari itself.
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On stage at the WWDC 2009 keynote address last June, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Bertrand Serlet was explaining the new web content plugin mechanism for Safari in Snow Leopard. (And good for them for asking I’m not sure what I was thinking including that without sourcing it.) Several readers asked me for the source for my accusation contained in that last sentence, that Flash is the “leading source of application crashes on Mac OS X”. Of application crashes on Mac OS X is a component that Apple Is slow, they can optimize or re-write it. Many low-level OS components are open source. That’s not to say they wrote the whole thing from
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To my knowledge, Apple controls the entire source code to the On Flash and Mac OS X Application Crashes My fascination with the subject is fueled by the fact that it’s so polarizing, and that it encompasses both technical and political issues. I’ve been writing about this saga for two years. One group is going to be very surprised come Wednesday. You can see both reactions represented in the thread on my piece at Hacker News. Reaction to this was polarized - typically either “duh, of course it won’t” or “no way, it has to support Flash”. In my “ Tablet Musings” piece two weeks ago, I speculated that Apple’s imminent tablet probably won’t support Flash, for all the same reasons the iPhone doesn’t. Apple, Adobe, and Flash Monday, 25 January 2010
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