Bug 6409
Summary: | NS 4.7 and/or GNOME - 2 problems. | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | mathew_2000 |
Component: | netscape | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.0 | CC: | bde3, mathew_2000, rvokal |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2000-02-02 03:07:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
mathew_2000
1999-10-27 03:42:29 UTC
I can't reproduce this here. Going to the specified URL, and picking something in the form, I can still use alt-n to open new windows, use the arrow keys to scroll the window, and I can click on the zip code box to enter text. As for the second one, netscape is most likely exiting with a bus error; I've seen it before, but it's fairly hard to reproduce. The close-a-window-and-Netscape-explodes bug seems to have first appeared after the latest round of XFree86 updates for Redhat 5.2. (Indeed, I have a perfectly stable NS 4.7 that is pointed to a private copy of the old X libraries, and libc5 versions don't seem to have the problem either, although of course they have other ones.) I theorize that Netscape has built Navigator and Communicator against old X libraries and there is some subtle compatability problem, or a subtle bug in their code that is being exposed by the upgrade. (I have strace/ltrace/gdb output of a crash under NS 4.61 and Redhat 5.1+new libraries, for any interested parties.) Sure, send the traces. (please, don't cut and paste them. ;) ) *** Bug 6218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** The keyboard locks up in Netscape 4.7 after choosing an item from a <SELECT> drop down box with a long list of items. I created an example demonstration of the bug at http://www.taco.org/foo.html . This makes it impossible to fill out a whole bunch of forms out there! ------- Additional Comments From notting 10/29/99 17:20 ------- Can't reproduce this here. There is a known problem with the focus in regard to some select lists under some window managers; try focusing a different window, and then reselecting netscape. *** Bug 7659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** The problems with crashing (most likely with the Motif code) have been reported to Netscape. No fixes yet. *** Bug 5053 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |