I made a web application that is heavily dependent on Google Earth plug-in. There are times that it crashes due to unknown reasons.
I was wondering if there ways to :
For your question number 1) - see my answer on this SO Question
For 2) - I haven't tested this, but when you detect the plug-in has crashed, try running your initial function again. The one that should look something like this
function init() {
google.earth.createInstance('map3d', initCB, failureCB);
}