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Re: Netscape needs more protection against bad code & it needs updating.

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From: David T. Johnson
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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From: "David T. Johnson" <djohnson@isomedia.com>
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Subject: Re: Netscape needs more protection against bad code & it needs updating.
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