Re: [Camino] Processor Spike and Hang

On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Scott wrote:

> I used copy to get a URL from a forum web page, opened a new tab,  
> pasted the URL into the address bar, and CPU usage shot to 100%  
> while i got a perpetual pinwheel in Camino.  It eventually crashed.   
> The behavior was the same on multiple tries and in Camino 1.6.3, a  
> nightly, and an intel optimized build.
>
> The URL was a rapidshare file like:
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/106983569/file.sitx
>
> At last i got it to work by carefully selecting only the URL and not  
> the line.  Apparently an invisible character at the end (newline?)  
> caused the trouble.  Should an extra whitespace character be causing  
> a complete meltdown?

It does if you are using 1Password, according to a number of similar  
reports. We can't prevent bugs in third-party code--which is why  
removing input managers should always be your first step in  
troubleshooting problems.

-Stuart