[20355] in Athena Bugs
Netscape javascript bug on ebay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Toepel)
Tue May 21 20:54:38 2002
Message-Id: <200205220054.UAA16845@scar.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 20:54:36 -0400
From: Chris Toepel <ctoepel@MIT.EDU>
Bug-workers:
Hello. This is Chris Toepel, ctoepel, from Athena Consulting
and a user asked why ebay crashed her Netscape. I managed to
reproduce the problem very easily, even using brand new
netscape directories.
It looks like the Netscape 4.78 on Athena crashes whenever:
1) The user is on a Dell Linux Athena Workstation
AND
2) Netscape 4.78 has JavaScript ON.
AND
3) The browser loads the search results page, which is easily
accessible from http://ebay.com and submitting any search
in the search box.
So if you have been getting many reports that Netscape has
bugs that make it crash (which, lets face it, happens), here's
a great way to reproduce it.
=Chris
