Re: Crash with #2860

On 19 Jul 2015 David Pitt <pittdj@pittdj.co.uk> wrote:

> Peter Young, on 19 Jul, wrote:

>> I can't raise a bug report for this, as the bug-reporting page was
>> off-line when I tried just now. I'll try again later today.
>>
>> ARMX6, RISC OS 5.21. I downloaded #2860, which immediately crashed when I
>> opened my home page, www.bbc.co.uk/news. I shut the machine down. and this
>> time the home page loaded, but when I tried to open
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/gl52 NetSurf crashed again; I have the
>> logfile. I reverted to #2856, which behaved.
>>
>> Has anyone else found this? If so, I'll raise a proper bug report when I
>> can do.

> I am not seeing that crash specifically but am seeing something else.

> NetSurf opens a local home page here on startup. Reboot the machine, start
> NetSurf, quit NetSurf then restart NetSurf, crash. This starts with #2859
> and also happens with #2860, however #2858 seems OK. If NetSurf is restarted
> without opening a home page then the crash happens on clicking on its
> iconbar icon.

> The JavaScript setting does not seem relevant.

> This is on a Raspberry Pi Mk1 with OS 5.23 (18-Jul-15) complete with Zero
> Pain though there is no Zero Pain log.

So it's not just me; thanks, David and Brian.

> For the fast asleep :-

> https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2015/07/05/important-software
> -compatibility-notice

I'm still on RISC OS 5.21, and will stay with this till Andrew issues
a new ROM. I'm not brave enough to experiment with these things!

Best wishes,

Peter.

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