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muzzy:
Well, piratePenguin, I hope I never hear you bitching about IE crashing "for no reason" then.

There's a good reason why document.write doesn't work for xhtml, it'd potentially corrupt the document and that just can't be allowed. XML has to be verifiable, and if it can be fucked up during runtime by incompetent webdesigner, it's a bad thing. My friend didn't think of this, as he was trying to write xml table renderer that could sort by any column. Well, you can use xsl to sort stuff, but you can't use xsl to rewrite the page after it's been translated once. I recall he ended up writing a html page with javascript to do the XSLT and rewriting the html page instead. Either way, he seriously tried to write javascript into XSL, and learned it isn't supported. The surprise was that firefox crashes when this unsupported operation is tried.

Anyway, a crash bug is critical, always. It can be exploited to annoy the user to no end, and I'm sure you'd bitch about microsoft if we were discussing an IE crash bug that hasn't been patched for two years.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: muzzy ---Well, piratePenguin, I hope I never hear you bitching about IE crashing "for no reason" then.
--- End quote ---
And if you do?
The fact remains, Firefox has never, ever unexpectedly crashed on me. IE has.


--- Quote from: muzzy ---Anyway, a crash bug is critical, always. It can be exploited to annoy the user to no end, and I'm sure you'd bitch about microsoft if we were discussing an IE crash bug that hasn't been patched for two years.
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Yes I know it should be fixed. If it was exploited more often I'd guess it would be fixed quicker (fairly obvious). But obviously it isn't exploited alot and the Firefox dev's don't see it as important as some other stuff. I would doubt many users would care anyhow, I mean it's not crashing on too-many of them (it seems).

And, if MS hadn't patched an IE crash-bug for two years, yea, I'd probably bitch about it. Depending mainly on how often it's exploited (obviously).

Aloone_Jonez:
I'm temped to sign up to the mozilla forum and see if I can persuade them to get this fixed, maybe I could pretend to be an Opera fanboy to make it more fun. :D

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