Re: Crashes

On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Ken Case wrote:

>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Robert Love wrote:
>> All I can say is that other browsers don't crash near as much for  
>> me and in my NeXT days OmniWeb was _very_ stable.  How did we get  
>> this way?
>
> Four out of your last five crash reports were in the Flash plug-in,  
> and the fifth crash (this evening) was in JavaScript.  On the NeXT,  
> none of those crashes were possible because we had neither Flash nor  
> JavaScript.

Yes, I know things have gotten more complex since NeXT.  However, for  
me, OW crashes far more than it's rivals.  I use other Omni products  
and don't have issue with them.

Is there any chance I have an obsolete Flash component?  How do I find  
and replace them?



> The JavaScript crash happened when it was executing one of its  
> window timers; the Flash crashes all happened when we simply gave it  
> a chance to run (i.e., when we're sending it a "null" event).  None  
> of that code is ours, sadly, or it would be a lot easier for us to  
> fix.  Still, anything you remember (even something as simple as  
> "OmniWeb crashed while I wasn't at the keyboard, but I think I might  
> have had three youtube tabs open") might help us reproduce the crash  
> here--and if we can reproduce the crash we might be able to find  
> some way to avoid it (even when the crash isn't in our code).

OK, after years of sending in crash reports, I now know somebody reads  
them.  I'll make a better effort to put details in.