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Article #26Re: Netscape needs more protection against bad code & it needs updating.
From: David T. Johnson
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 04:12
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 04:12
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Sorry, here's the correct link to Warpzilla: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla-i386-pcos2-vacpp-0.9.1.zip Victor Bien wrote: > > On 12 June around 8 pm local time I had bad experience with a page > from Google. The page pointing to CDC, the publisher of BA/2, came up > OK for a few moments but then before the "document done" message came up > Netscape crashed with the message: > Access violation at 1e968ac8 by PMMerge 0004:00138ac8. > > Because Netscape has occasionally failed like this before I tried > accessing the page again. This time the page came up similarly but > before loading was complete *OS/2* crashed with a Trap D at > 0168:fff1f322-000e:c322. > > After restarting (twice because the WPS hung during the 1st restart) > and trying again the loading failed again with the message: > Access violation 1d4e59ef by Mozilla 0001:000059ef > > Again I retried and this time Netscape crashed but went zombie. It > did not fully close, it could not be restarted and further it could not > killed from Ctrl - "Swtich to another application" which showed the > process was still running even though Windows list did not have it > listed. Therefore another restart was necessary. > > Accessing the same page from a Windows machine (via LAN thru Injoy) > with Netscape 4.76 brought the page up OK and I was able to complete my > session with the CDC site. > > Netscape 4.61 is steadily getting more and more unsatisfactory. For > example it ignores CSS code completely inside table constucts. Other > CSS problems require time consuming work arounds. Probably it's these > shortcomings that has prompted banks like St George to refuse to work > with Netscape versions below 4.74 which unfortunately includes OS/2's > Netscape 4.61 creating the issue with St George that came up a few weeks > ago in aus.computers.os2. > > When is IBM going to move Netscape on? > > Victor Bien > VCB Computing Alternatives (R) > http://sydney.dialix.com.au/~vcbien/
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