Build 1786 killed by www.hostdump.com

Hi,

the recent Opera build 1786 can be reproducibly killed by
trying to access
www.hostdump.com

If only Opera were more robust - even if the contents of this web page
were completely broken, Opera may rant as much as it likes but it should
never die.

Thanks for Opera,
Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University

Op Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:58:04 +0100 schreef Helmut Jarausch  
<jarausch@skynet.be>:

> Hi,
>
> the recent Opera build 1786 can be reproducibly killed by
> trying to access
> www.hostdump.com
>
> If only Opera were more robust - even if the contents of this web page
> were completely broken, Opera may rant as much as it likes but it should
> never die.

Maybe this is "Plugins crash Opera on UNIX" noted in the 'known
issues'? I  
gather this makes this build only suitable for Linux users who disable  
plugins. But these weekly test snapshots can not be expected to be robust  
all the time.

-- 
Rijk

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Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the recent Opera build 1786 can be reproducibly killed by
> trying to access
> www.hostdump.com
>
> If only Opera were more robust - even if the contents of this web page
> were completely broken, Opera may rant as much as it likes but it should
> never die.
>
It doesn't crash on me. I've disabled plugins altogether as soon as I 
installed this build.

> Thanks for Opera,
> Helmut.
>

Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:

> 
> Maybe this is "Plugins crash Opera on UNIX" noted in the 'known
issues'? I
> gather this makes this build only suitable for Linux users who disable
> plugins. But these weekly test snapshots can not be expected to be robust
> all the time.
> 

Just reporting and confirming the above. I just installed the latest
snapshot (1800).  And, it started crashing.  I turned off plugins (under
Preferences/Advanced/Content) as suggested, and the crashes stopped.

One other issue that I've found -- If (while viewing a Web page) I type a
slash and a search string, only the first character of the search string is
recognized.  In effect, "/abc" searches for "a", not
"abc".  But the Find
dialog (Ctrl-F or Edit/Find...) works fine.

I'm using (from Help/About Opera):

Version 9.50 Beta 2
Build 1800
Platform Linux
System x86_64, 2.6.22-14-generic
Qt library 3.3.7

- Dave

-- 
Dave Kuhlman
http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman

Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be> writes:

> the recent Opera build 1786  can be reproducibly killed by trying to
> access www.hostdump.com


Why don't you just use Flash Blocker

http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

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