And it came to pass that barney wrote:
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>
>> And it came to pass that barney wrote:
>>
>>> I'm curious why mozilla is branching with a top crasher
>>> bug not yet fixed?
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114377
>>>
>>> IMO, leaving this bug in 0.9.7 will make it pretty
>>> unusable, definitely degraded, for a lot of Windows users.
>>> It's hard to imagine anyone using a release where you
>>> can't right-click on images or you'll crash. I personally
>>> think it should have been a blocker bug, but that's just
>>> me, I guess. :-\ I backed down to the 11/28 build until
>>> this gets fixed. It was killing me trying to open links
>>> in new tabs.
>>> :-(
>>>
>>> Or is this a less-serious bug than I think it is?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's probably a much less serious bug than you think - I
>> haven't ever crashed by right clicking on an image, which
>> is a good bet that this only happens in certain
>> circumstances and is not a global issue.
>>
>> In fact, I couldn't crash on any of the sites listed by
>> right clicking on anything.
>>
>> I also note that they're discussing getting a fix in for
>> 0.9.8, as this report came in too late to fix for 0.9.7
>>
>>
>
> You didn't mention which build you're using, or what O/S.
> I've crashed on every build I've tried from 12/7 on, and
> finally gave up.
Windows 98SE, Mozilla 0.9.6, build 2001112009
I can't make it crash by right-clicking any of the images on the
pages referenced by Bugzilla - I simply get the expected context
menu.
> And the bug is already marked a top
> crasher, which is a pretty fair indication it's not an
> obscure or isolated incident. Maybe you're not crashing
> because *you* are the oddball. ;) BTW, 0.9.8 is a long time
> away, relatively speaking. A top crasher bug shouldn't sit
> around that long, IMO.
Until this message pointing to it, I was unaware of the bug. I
use this function a lot with no problems. If it's as endemic
as you say, I would have expected to have heard a lot more about
it than I have.
Perhaps it's a flaw in the nightlies?
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
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