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* {{bug|651192}} - Implement new AsyncDrawing model for plugins. This involves removing support for windowed plugins since they are the thing causing us hangs. Hangs don't happen with windowless plugins and we'd like everything to be windowless for other reasons as well. We can't really remove windowed plugins until we have an alternative and this bug represents part #1 of that.
* {{bug|651192}} - Implement new AsyncDrawing model for plugins. This involves removing support for windowed plugins since they are the thing causing us hangs. Hangs don't happen with windowless plugins and we'd like everything to be windowless for other reasons as well. We can't really remove windowed plugins until we have an alternative and this bug represents part #1 of that.
** Status: Talking to Josh, we made some progress on this but not much. Work will probably resume in another month of so.
** Status: Talking to Josh, we made some progress on this but not much. Work will probably resume in another month of so.
=Browser Hangs=
We know less about the extent of problems when the browser hangs but we have several activities in the works to investigate this further.
==Analysis==
* {{bug|429592}} - We are working on a patch to catch these types of hangs.
* Release Management is working on a project to investigate [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/WER_Investigation winqual] reports that are generated when the user kills the browser.
* There are a number of bugs that relate to hang issues that we are investigating.
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