Silverlight Stability

Question

I don't know if anyone can advise about this one. We have written and implemented a LOB Silverlight 3 application - which we are currently testing at a clients site.

We have come across the problem, where on a few of the machines on site the browsers crash randomly. The machines run Windows XP SP3 - the browser is Firefox.

We suspect that it may be because these machines browser's seems to be unreliable as they had some plugins installed etc. and a suggested solution was to implement the application in the out of browser mode.

What I want to know is, when a Silverlight 3 Application is running out of browser, is it still relying on a specific browser in the background... or would this solve our problem if the browser is "unstable" because of plugins?

Answer 1

I'm struggling for evidence but I'm pretty sure I remember reading that out-of-browser uses the Internet Explorer engine.

EDIT

This post reinforces my memory.

And this article implies the same, if you go to the section "Detecting Network Connectivity and Out-of-Browser Status" and read the final para, beginning "You can use local messaging to communicate between...".