[20357] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape javascript bug on ebay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed May 22 14:48:56 2002
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:48:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Chris Toepel <ctoepel@mit.edu>
cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
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Yup. Not much I can do about this for 4.x Netscape, but it's an excellent
thing for us to try in the current round of 6.x testing.
If you'd like to try it yourself, at the moment you can go to
/mit/infoagents/arch/linux/i386_linux22/MIT-only/netscape-6.22/
and run ./netscape from there.
I don't recommend giving any users that path, though; the plumbing is
still very much unfinished (missing plugins, unset preferences, and some
path problems) and subject to change over the next few days. Nonetheless,
if you're curious and want the early returns ....
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Chris Toepel wrote:
> 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
>
