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piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---This is both a Mozilla and Windows bug, mainly the latter since however buggey a browser (or any other application) is it should not crash the whole OS.
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Mozilla bug? How do you know (note well: know) that?

Aloone_Jonez:
Because this issue doesn't affect Opera, also if Windows wasn't affected by this bug then Mozilla would just crash instead of bringing down the whole system.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Because this issue doesn't affect Opera, also if Windows wasn't affected by this bug then Mozilla would just crash instead of bringing down the whole system.
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Does it still affect IE?
The Opera guys could be using some workaround.
How come this bug doesn't appear in the GNU/Linux releases of Mozilla? Is the GNU/Linux-specific code OK and some Windows-specific code broken?

MarathoN:
My system hung when I tried this, using Firefox 1.0.7 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Does it still affect IE?
The Opera guys could be using some workaround.
How come this bug doesn't appear in the GNU/Linux releases of Mozilla? Is the GNU/Linux-specific code OK and some Windows-specific code broken?
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That's a good point.

Have you tried this in Linux?

Does Firefox crash?

My reasoning was that Firefox asks Windows GDI to draw a big fuck off bitmap and Windows crashes, when it should just terminate Firefox and display a message saying "This program has performed an illegal operation." Even if this bug isn't present in the Linux version it doesn't prove anything since X handles graphics in a totally differant way do Windows, and some of the code is differant in the Windows version.

Opera has still proved it's worth either way, you say they may've worked around this bug. Well if this is true it shows thier knowledge of Windows programming is superiour to Mozilla's.

Yes, a Windows thing since this affects IE too but this could just be a coninsidence, or you could be right. I don't know perhapps Firefox is expecting an error code to be generated so it can display a message or something but Windows just crashes, perhapps you could read the source or better still fix it.

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