Re: even Wikipedia times out now

On 2 Oct 2015 Vincent Sanders <vince@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:03:56PM +0100, Jim Nagel wrote:
>> It seems that Netsurf now times out even for Wikipedia.
>> Try this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzing
>>
>> Hourglass goes on forever, though it least it does not tie up the
>> whole machine.
>>
>> Go to Netsurf iconbar choices, Content, Disable Javascript,
>> and try the Wikipedia page again. Now it loads no problem.
>>
>> (Netsurf #2964 on Iyonix with Ro 5.18)
>>
>> Anybody else see the same behaviour?

> The bugtracker is always available, please feel free to report issues
> in development builds. Please do not be offended if we close them with
> "we know" but in the same breath we do apreciate you taking the time.

> In this case you managed to give me an easy to reproduce testcase and
> I found and slaughtered the bug, fix is in #2968

> The issue was to do with asyncronous javascript script completion
> handling. Basically javascript handling is mad and you found a case I
> had not covered.

Many thanks, and I'm glad that my suspicion that it was something
wrong with my system has been disproved. Pages now loading like
lightning, and it looks as if the problem reported my me as bug
0002274 has been solved too.

Best wishes,

Peter.

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