Re: Crash on Windows (Was: Re: "Styles" dropdown and other stuff)

On 3/3/04 10:23 AM, Peter Bowman wrote:

> Christian Stocker wrote:
> 
>>>>- Just as an aside, BXE crashes my Windows version of
>>>>Mozilla quite a lot (versions 1.3 up to 1.6, "quite a lot" = 2 out 
>>>>of 3 tries). It works fine on Linux. Removing all of Mozilla and 
>>
>>I ususally don't use Windows (more a Mac and Linux guy), but 
>>I know that 
>>a lot of the testing done for BXE happened on Windows and if it would 
>>have crashed 2 out 3 tries, I'd certainly heared any feedback 
>>about that.
> 
> 
> Yes, that makes sense.
> 
> 
>>I did have some crashes now and then with BXE, but not many enough to 
>>actually bother investigating further ;)
>>
>>I'll ask my Windows guys, if they now more.
>>
>>and I assume, you can't reproduce the crashes, right?
> 
> 
> There's no specific set of conditions - but when Mozilla crashes it always
> crashes at the same point in the code (line 109 in http.js). I suspect
> either a problem in Mozilla or in my installation of Mozilla - maybe even
> some other software is causing a problem for Mozilla.
> 
> 
>>And as an Endnote: We recomend using Mozilla 1.6 or Firefox 0.8 (1.4 
>>resp. 0.7 are also supported), since they are much faster than their 
>>predecessor. At least the loading of BXe takes now almost 
>>half the time 
>>as before..
> 
> 
> I'm currently on Mozilla 1.6.
> 
> 
>>>Here I'm using BXE on WinXP Pro. Used it with Mozilla 1.4, 
>>
>>1.5, 1.6 and
>>
>>>Firbird 0.6, 0.7 and Firefox 0.8. It never crashed my win. 
>>
>>If things are
>>
>>>bad configured then BXE hangs on loading for sure. But it 
>>
>>never crashed
>>
>>>windows itself.
> 
> 
> It doesn't crash Windows itself, but Mozilla starts using 100% CPU and I
> have to kill it.

Aaah, it doesn't crash? It is "just" using 100% CPU? That's a whole 
other issue then (for me at least ;) ). Somewhere must be a endless loop 
that causes that. Will have a look at line 109 in http.js ;)

chregu



> 
> Thanks,
> Pete.
> 

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