GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 355519
Plugins continue to run after tabs are closed
Last modified: 2007-02-01 20:45:45 UTC
Please describe the problem: If a tab containing a plugin is closed, the plugin continues to run. This is noticeable with video sites such as youtube where the plugins make some kind of sound. The plugins continue to play until the window that contained their tab is closed. Steps to reproduce: 1. Make two tabs 2. In one tab, to to youtube 3. Play a video 4. Close the youtube tab Actual results: Sound from video continues to play Expected results: Instances of the flash plugin should be destroyed when the page in the tab is destroyed Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
Yep, true. This happens to me with flash plugin and totem xine plugin. Check #351709.
Not reproducible for me. Do you have any epiphany extensions enabled? If so, try with all of them disabled (restart epiphany after disabling). Which epiphany version, and which backend gecko version?
Got it! It was caused by the (third-party) 'tab close' extension.
Oops, that's the 'Undo Tab Close' extension.
Please report the problem to the extension's author. You may want to point him to the mozilla sources for undo-tab-close in firefox 2.0 which might or might not solve this problem.
First, thanks to Sam Morris for notifying me of this bug. Second, I do not plan to fix it. I made the Undo Tab Close extension in a very simple way, and it (the extension) isn't important enough to me to put too much time and effort into it. What I have done, however, is to put a big warning on my Epiphany Extensions website ( http://www.sstuhr.dk/epiphany-extensions/ ) about this problem. I hope that is enough to minimize the future amount of bug reports caused by this problem. I am sorry about any bug report caused by this problem.
Oh that's bad to know.
*** Bug 351709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there any chance of making the extensions available again, so others can attempt to fix it? (it's a shame that this - and some of your other extensions - aren't in the core epiphany extensions pack.)
(In reply to comment #9) > Is there any chance of making the extensions available again, so others can > attempt to fix it? Nope, not a chance. I am very sure that a proper implementation of such a plugin would look nothing like the Undo Tab Close extension I wrote. I am also very sure that the way I implemented it can't be fixed to avoid this bug. My extension was a hack, with very little code, and I wrote and used it at a time when I didn't have working sound with the Macromedia Flash 7 plugin, and almost never used any multimedia content in a webbrowser. That's why I didn't catch this bug myself.