[18561] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.15: Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Nov 29 13:21:11 2000
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:21:07 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: ChiBong Chan <chibong@mit.edu>
cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
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This is a standard feature of Netscape's poor user-event handling and is
unfortunately something we are unable to fix at this time.
-Todd Belton
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, ChiBong Chan wrote:
> System name: m12-182-10.mit.edu
> Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.15
> Display type: cgsix
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: mwm
>
> What were you trying to do?
> Go to a link.
>
> What's wrong:
> What happens is I'm at this site call about.com. I clicked on some link, it was loading and then at some point it stalled ["96% of 44K (stalled)" on the status bar]. Thereafter, clicking either the "STOP" button or clicking on other links have no effect--Netscape doesn't do anything. Nevertheless it seems to be at least partly responding to my clicking because it seems to change color of the link when the mouse button is down. But it never actually tries to go to any of the links I clicked on, doesn't even try to load. I also tried reloading or hitting the back/forward button, those buttons respond but fails to reload the webpage that I was at when the error occurs (it just give a blank document). Also, after I go to menu bar and exit Netscape and rerun it, it complains about a lock file not being deleted, indicating that it did not apparently exit normally despite appearance of being so.
>
>
> What should have happened:
> Netscape should respond to clicking on links, should reload page, and should exit normally.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> dunno, but i suppose it's possible they might have some sort of bug in the web page's scripts?
>
> the web page I'm at when the error occurs is
> http://crime.about.com/newsissues/crime/library/blfiles/bljuvp.htm
>
> the error doesn't occur until you click on one of the links there AND the loading of the page the link linked to stalled. Then the unresponsive stuff happens.
>
