[lug] Free Software Consortium page triggers bug
Neal McBurnett
neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Mon Dec 23 12:08:13 MST 2002
Re: http://www.fsconsortium.com/
Their web page also triggers a tight loop in my Linux setup that is
hard to get out of. My cpu was consumed 50% by X11, and the rest
split between sawfish and mozilla1.1. I don't know where the
bug really lies, but I've seen this once before when a very simple
web page used some javascript to constantly change the <title>.
I had to log in from another box and do this to get a different
page loaded and active:
DISPLAY=:0 mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org)"
The script is:
<script language="JavaScript1.2">
var message="Free Software Consortium"
var message=message+" "
i="0"
var temptitle=""
var speed="150"
function titler(){
if (!document.all&&!document.getElementById)
return
document.title=temptitle+message.charAt(i)
temptitle=temptitle+message.charAt(i)
i++
if(i==message.length)
{
i="0"
temptitle=""
}
setTimeout("titler()",speed)
}
window.onload=titler
</script>
I fixed it by disabling javascript. I wish there was an easy way
to leave javascript off most of the time, but know when it would
really be useful to enable it for a page.
Anyone know if this is a bug in mozilla, sawfish or X11?
I'm running redhat 7.3, mozilla 1.1.
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:45:37AM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> Ugh. This place subscribed to all our lists and then sent this message
> through, on one list multiple times even...
>
> I've banned their site, I suggest that anyone who gets this actively
> avoid this place.
>
> Sean
> --
> A little help at the right time is better than a lot of help at the wrong
> time.
> Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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