Monday, 27 August 2018

Re: Reproducible crash on BBC news web site

In message <a33b0c2d57.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com>
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

>In message <2932b62c57.tigger@bc63.orpheusinternet.co.uk>
> Nick Roberts <tigger@orpheusinternet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In message <e538402c57.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com>
>> David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> To my surprise, there is a 100% reproducible crash when visiting a
>>> URL on the BBC news web site. Reported as Mantis issue 2611, with
>>> crash dump supplied.
>>>
>>> Happens with 4436 and 4433. I'll try some earlier versions to see
>>> if I can find a point of introduction.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>>URL?
>>
>>The obvious one (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/) works OK for me (4437 on
>>Titanium).
>>
>>In case it was a Javascript thing, I tried with an without "Disable
>>Javascript) and it worked (or at least, didn't crash) in either case.
>
>I reported the URL in the Mantis case. Vince added a note to the
>effect that it is a JS thing - turn JS off, no crash.
>
>I still think it's unfortunate that a bit of JS can cause NS to crash.

I can confirm that it is resolved in build 4445. My thanks to Vince
and Michael.

Dave

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