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8.224. spice-xpi

Updated spice-xpi packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The spice-xpi packages provide the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) extension for Mozilla that allows the SPICE client to be used from a web browser.
This update fix the following update:
* Due to a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager web admin portal, it was possible to open a second SPICE console, which caused the SPICE plug-in to terminate unexpectedly. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this bug and the console no longer crashes in the described scenario. (BZ#1073461)

Bug Fix

BZ#1073461
Due to a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager web admin portal, it was possible to open a second SPICE console, which caused the SPICE plug-in to terminate unexpectedly. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this bug and the console no longer crashes in the described scenario.
This update fix the following update:
Users of spice-xpi are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug. After installing the update, the Mozilla Firefox browser must be restarted for the changes to take effect.