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Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012Posted Feb 28, 2012 18:04 UTC (Tue) by ndye (subscriber, #9947)In reply to: Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012 by chrisV Parent article: Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012
Bizarrely, only one user can play html5 audio or video on a computer using firefox until the /tmp directory is cleared out, and so on for the next user. That sounds an awful lot like my experience with a JVM running the iLO remote console (RC) from an HP DL380: The first user who starts an RC session can start an RC from another host, but no other user can start an RC until that person quits. This Fortune 100 company can't be bothered to diagnose and fix the problem, so now the "secure gateway" boxes are Windows. "Oh well," say the poor IT saps, "it's path of least resistance: The folks in charge also love Exchange, Office, SharePoint, Active Directory, etc." Golf-course-ware at its finest.
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Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012 Posted Feb 28, 2012 23:11 UTC (Tue) by chrisV (subscriber, #43417) [Link]
> The first user who starts an RC session can start an RC from another host,
> but no other user can start an RC until that person quits.
It's worse than that. Two different users can't use html5 audio/video with firefox (and presumably other mozilla products) consecutively, as well as concurrently, unless the temporary directory is cleaned out. This basically means that if you share your home computer with your spouse/partner, you are out of luck. (For distributions such as ubuntu which do clear out the /tmp directory on reboots, you can at least reboot if your significant other wants to use his/her user account, but that is hardly convenient.)
Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012 Posted Feb 29, 2012 7:45 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
Denial of service attack FTW! I wonder if it also allows arbitrary file overwrite.
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