Re: multi crashes SM on java sites, with a change in the UA

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:49:32 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.multizilla
Organization The Mozdev Foundation - news server
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Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote:
> Philip Chee wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:38:41 -0700, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>
>>> it was crashing on the "1.8.3.4e" part of Multizilla.
>>
>> As I said "brain dead" browser sniffing. It thought it was running in a
>> Gecko 1.8.3.4e browser.
>>
>> Phil
> 
> The funny thing is that my younger brother (Bryan) uses Java every 
> single day (World of Warcraft) and for as long as I can remember, but he 
> never complaint or otherwise ran into trouble.
> 
> I'm not saying that there isn't a bug, or that we shouldn't change 
> anything, but I do wonder why he never crashes?!?
> 
> Michael

thats not what the original problem is.  Yes, I view 
many sites with java and never run into a problem.  Its 
only when I add to the user agent line that I run into 
the problems. And I narrowed it down to:

general.useragent.vendorSub = 1.8.3.4e

that is causing the problems.

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