Re: Reproducible crash on BBC news web site

2018-08-27 Thread Peter Young
On 27 Aug 2018  David Higton  wrote:

> In message 
>   David Higton  wrote:

>>In message <2932b62c57.tig...@bc63.orpheusinternet.co.uk>
>>  Nick Roberts  wrote:
>>
>>>In message 
>>>   David Higton  wrote:
>>>
 To my surprise, there is a 100% reproducible crash when visiting a
 URL on the BBC news web site.  Reported as Mantis issue 2611, with
 crash dump supplied.
 
 Happens with 4436 and 4433.  I'll try some earlier versions to see
 if I can find a point of introduction.
 
 Dave
>>>
>>>URL?
>>>
>>>The obvious one (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/) works OK for me (4437 on
>>>Titanium).
>>>
>>>In case it was a Javascript thing, I tried with an without "Disable
>>>Javascript) and it worked (or at least, didn't crash) in either case.
>>
>>I reported the URL in the Mantis case.  Vince added a note to the
>>effect that it is a JS thing - turn JS off, no crash.
>>
>>I still think it's unfortunate that a bit of JS can cause NS to crash.

> I can confirm that it is resolved in build 4445.  My thanks to Vince
> and Michael.

Thanks from me too. The formatting still isn't great, but the images are 
now a lot sharper.

Best wishes,

Peter Young.

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Re: Reproducible crash on BBC news web site

2018-08-27 Thread David Higton
In message 
  David Higton  wrote:

>In message <2932b62c57.tig...@bc63.orpheusinternet.co.uk>
>  Nick Roberts  wrote:
>
>>In message 
>>   David Higton  wrote:
>>
>>> To my surprise, there is a 100% reproducible crash when visiting a
>>> URL on the BBC news web site.  Reported as Mantis issue 2611, with
>>> crash dump supplied.
>>> 
>>> Happens with 4436 and 4433.  I'll try some earlier versions to see
>>> if I can find a point of introduction.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>
>>URL?
>>
>>The obvious one (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/) works OK for me (4437 on
>>Titanium).
>>
>>In case it was a Javascript thing, I tried with an without "Disable
>>Javascript) and it worked (or at least, didn't crash) in either case.
>
>I reported the URL in the Mantis case.  Vince added a note to the
>effect that it is a JS thing - turn JS off, no crash.
>
>I still think it's unfortunate that a bit of JS can cause NS to crash.

I can confirm that it is resolved in build 4445.  My thanks to Vince
and Michael.

Dave