Bug 5941 - netscape 4.71 hangs on www.origin.ea.com: javascript?
Summary: netscape 4.71 hangs on www.origin.ea.com: javascript?
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: netscape
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-14 08:48 UTC by jeffersontan
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-15 16:21:47 UTC
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Description jeffersontan 1999-10-14 08:48:03 UTC 
Netscape 4.71 hangs completely on http://www.origin.ea.com
(as of 15 October 1999 anyway). Probably with
http://www.uo.com as well.

The remedy I found was to turn off javascript. Not exactly a
solution to the problem but..
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-14 14:17:59 UTC 
Doesn't hang here with netscape-4.7 (AFAIK, 4.71 isn't out yet...)
Comment 2 jeffersontan 1999-10-15 15:45:59 UTC 
Yeah, my mistake. It's Communicator 4.7, not 4.71.

I finally found the problem: it was caused by my plug-in for
Macromedia Flash Player (Shockwave Flash 4.0r12). I moved back to an
older version (3.0r13) and no more problems.

I'll report the bug to Macromedia.
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-15 16:21:59 UTC 
I should have thought of that. The first thing I thought when I
looked is 'you know, that looks way too complicated for Javascript'.
Silly me forgets what plugins I have installed. :)
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