[16263] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape green bookmark icon hangs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Belton)
Sun Aug 30 15:54:34 1998
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 15:54:28 -0400
From: Todd Belton <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
The fact that the cursor changes to that icon indicates to me that
you're "dragging" the link around. This is easy to do accidentally, if
you're a fast mouser and you move the mouse past threshold while holding
the button down on the link. It would also explain why you don't get it
every time.
Ultra 10s have apparently got problems with this feature of Netscape
4.05. Aurora wrote me a few days ago about doing the same thing (also by
accident) and getting all sorts of ick in the console window. She didn't
hang, but judging from the weird errors she got, that was just a matter
of good luck.
No other variety of Sun has a problem with this that I know of.
I'm looking for any other reports from people with any of the machines
in the Ultra family. Drag a link around, if you have the patience to
deal with possible concequences, and let me know what happens.
I suspect, though, it's going to turn into a doc issue, i.e. nothing we
can do about it.
-Todd Belton
John Hawkinson wrote:
>
> Twice in the past two days users using Netscape 4.05 have had it grab
> the X server and sit there hanging doing nothing. This happened to be
> on Sun Ultra 10s both times, but I assume it is likely just a
> Netscape-under-Solaris bug. This behavior is initiated by clicking a
> link (it doesn't seem to be a particular link, but obviously it
> doesn't always happen).
>
> The icon changes to a small green piece of a paper with a quill on it.
> At this point, the only reasonable recourse appears to be to reboot
> the workstation.
>
> I don't use Netscape 4.05, of course, so I don't have a great
> indication of how frequently this problem really ocurrs.
>
> --jhawk
