https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21622
Summary: loading a wikipedia article crashes my browser
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Apparently, attempting to load any Wikipedia article crashes my browser.
I can view the front page at http://www.wikipedia.org/, but entering
either "calcium" or "Big_O_Notation" in the search bar and middle-clicking
creates a new browser tab, spins for a few seconds, then kills the browser.
[Incidentally, there's no option on the front page to submit a bug report,
and clicking meta-wiki also kills the browser.]
The browser dies with Exit 11.
Another way to the same kill is to click on a link pointing to an article
from another web page. For example, the QuantumAlgorithmZoo page has a
pointer to a wikipedia article explaining Big_O_Notation; clicking on that
link kills the browser.
This is a new problem, things worked fine before. I think I used Wikipedia
within the last week, but it might be as much as three weeks ago.
I'm running a very old browser, Mozilla 1.2.1,
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225
and I don't use Flash. Most cookie are disabled.
I assume you've recently revised the stuff surrounding each article to
use some new exotic web feature which poisons my old browser.
Any advice you could provide would be appreciated-- perhaps a text-only
entry point?
Rich Schroeppel [email protected]
PS: I hope the buttom labeled Commit means "Submit Bug Report".
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