[17702] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.3.19: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 23 22:19:33 2000
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:19:28 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200003240319.WAA23344@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17369] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Hi John,
Last fall you reported a problme with netscape. I'm sorry it's taken
us so long to get back to you.
> I have netscape configured to ask me for confirmation before setting a
> cookie. I typed http://www.boston.com and it asked me about a cookie.
> I decided I would rather quit netscape without going through the
> dialog. Knowing that the cookie dialog prevents any other keyboard or
> mouse interaction with netscape I used the window manager kill function
> on the main netscape window (this sends an ICCCM delete request).
> What's wrong:
> Netscape dumped core after deleting the main window:
> /mit/infoagents/arch/sgi_65/bin/netscape[299]: 597383 Memory fault(coredump)
> The core file is too large to keep but it is easy to reproduce.
> What should have happened:
> Netscape should have exited, since I deleted the last non-transient window.
> Alternatively, netscape should have ignored the request if it could not
> handle it at the time.
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> I don't think you need a documentation reference to know that netscape sucks.
Unfortunately, I think your last statement sums it up pretty well. We
don't currently believe that submitting bug reports back to netscape
is likely to cause them to do somethign useful, and as such, it
doesn't seem like it is worth our time to do so. I'm going to close
your bug report. If you have strong objections to that I can re-open
it, but it isn't likely to change the outcome.
--
Jonathon
