[16267] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape green bookmark icon hangs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Aug 30 19:12:59 1998
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:12:57 -0400
To: Todd Belton <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16263] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@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.
Possibly...I just played around with this on a cluster Ultra 10
and was unable to replicate the problem. Dragging with mouse 1
produces a purple bookmark icon, but not a green one. I tried
short drags and long drags, and under no circumstances did I get
a hang or anything anomalous. The cursor always "exploded" into an
XC_hand2 icon when I released the left mouse button.
| 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.
I reliably got console errors:
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_QueryColors)
Value in failed request: 0xffffff
Serial number of failed request: 47080
Current serial number in output stream: 47080
Widget hierarchy of resource: unknown
I don't think they're necessarily related to the hangs I was seeing,
and I'm disinclined to spend overmuch time analyzing them given their
severity. Someone should consider running netscape under XScope,
though, and see what happens.
| I suspect, though, it's going to turn into a doc issue, i.e. nothing we
| can do about it.
Oh, there's always something we can do about it ;-).
--jhawk
