On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:49:57AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Pearson wrote: > > > I've had Netscape crash on me while JavaScript was enabled, but otherwise > > it's been just fine *until* yesterday, when it crashed (occasionally and > > unreproducibly, using version 4.5) several times while loading pages from > > http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ with Java & JavaScript disabled, so > > presumably bad HTML can still break it from time to time. > > > > Weird, because I've been viewing the same pages in navigator 4.6 > (everything on) for a couple days, with no stability problems. There > isn't any unusual HTML there, either, as far as I can tell. > > This is a perfect example of why bloatware is bad. Nobody will ever be > able to debug this. There's just too much stuff going on to be able to > track down exactly why it's crashing... >
AFAICT, the content there is actively-generated (based on a few NT-ish error messages I saw in place of pages, that had the look of broken glue); that, the fact that NS had been running just fine with 12 windows open for a few weeks and the fact that I could not find a page that would crash Netscape twice in a row, makes me suspect their scripts of occasionally spitting out posonous gibberish. OTOH, 4.5 is a couple of releases behind the curve... John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
