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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #15 on: 13 October 2005, 15:56 »
Nice trick :)

ps: I don't like Opera becouse it is too ... hm how do you say this ...
Overdid(overdo??)...
...an overkill :D...
...too much bling  ...
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #16 on: 13 October 2005, 16:33 »
I see nobody ever has the balls to respond to my comments about Opera's severe lack of features regarding rendering that inhibit its ability to use certain important features on many popular sites.
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #17 on: 13 October 2005, 16:52 »
That's because Opera is fully standards compliant and I have never had any problem with it, and if I do then I'll use Firefox to view that particular website. I don't see a problem here, to me this would be just like temporaryly switching to IE to view a couple of websites - wow that really hurts!
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #18 on: 13 October 2005, 17:42 »
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I see nobody ever has the balls to respond to my comments about Opera's severe lack of features regarding rendering that inhibit its ability to use certain important features on many popular sites.


What important features? I haven't noticed anything missing anywhere.
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #19 on: 13 October 2005, 19:29 »
I think kintario is complaining because he doesn't know how to use Opera properly, he doesn't know how to install the appropriate extentions to use certain web features.
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #20 on: 13 October 2005, 22:08 »
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This is both a Mozilla and Windows bug, mainly the latter since however buggey a browser (or any other application) is it should not crash the whole OS.
Mozilla bug? How do you know (note well: know) that?
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #21 on: 13 October 2005, 23:58 »
Because this issue doesn't affect Opera, also if Windows wasn't affected by this bug then Mozilla would just crash instead of bringing down the whole system.
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #22 on: 14 October 2005, 18:35 »
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Because this issue doesn't affect Opera, also if Windows wasn't affected by this bug then Mozilla would just crash instead of bringing down the whole system.
Does it still affect IE?
The Opera guys could be using some workaround.
How come this bug doesn't appear in the GNU/Linux releases of Mozilla? Is the GNU/Linux-specific code OK and some Windows-specific code broken?
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #23 on: 15 October 2005, 01:50 »
My system hung when I tried this, using Firefox 1.0.7 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #24 on: 15 October 2005, 02:52 »
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Does it still affect IE?
The Opera guys could be using some workaround.
How come this bug doesn't appear in the GNU/Linux releases of Mozilla? Is the GNU/Linux-specific code OK and some Windows-specific code broken?

That's a good point.

Have you tried this in Linux?

Does Firefox crash?

My reasoning was that Firefox asks Windows GDI to draw a big fuck off bitmap and Windows crashes, when it should just terminate Firefox and display a message saying "This program has performed an illegal operation." Even if this bug isn't present in the Linux version it doesn't prove anything since X handles graphics in a totally differant way do Windows, and some of the code is differant in the Windows version.

Opera has still proved it's worth either way, you say they may've worked around this bug. Well if this is true it shows thier knowledge of Windows programming is superiour to Mozilla's.

Yes, a Windows thing since this affects IE too but this could just be a coninsidence, or you could be right. I don't know perhapps Firefox is expecting an error code to be generated so it can display a message or something but Windows just crashes, perhapps you could read the source or better still fix it.
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #25 on: 15 October 2005, 03:05 »
i am using a very phucked up copy of windows XP SP2 and the my system did not hang or crash with that image, it simply loaded it in a few seconds and nothing happened.
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #26 on: 15 October 2005, 18:51 »
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That's a good point.

Have you tried this in Linux?

Does Firefox crash?

My reasoning was that Firefox asks Windows GDI to draw a big fuck off bitmap and Windows crashes, when it should just terminate Firefox and display a message saying "This program has performed an illegal operation." Even if this bug isn't present in the Linux version it doesn't prove anything since X handles graphics in a totally differant way do Windows, and some of the code is differant in the Windows version.

Opera has still proved it's worth either way, you say they may've worked around this bug. Well if this is true it shows thier knowledge of Windows programming is superiour to Mozilla's.

Yes, a Windows thing since this affects IE too but this could just be a coninsidence, or you could be right. I don't know perhapps Firefox is expecting an error code to be generated so it can display a message or something but Windows just crashes, perhapps you could read the source or better still fix it.
It doesn't crash for me.
If Windows GDI or whatever causes the system to crash when asked to draw a huge image, then Windows GDI needs to be fixed.
Or we could just check that the image isn't big enough before we ask Windows GDI to draw it, and if it isn't display an error message. Maybe the Opera guys decided "We needa work around this" and did something similar, and the Firefox guys said "Windows GDI is broke, not Firefox. Microsoft needs to fix Windows GDI, it's their bug". It doesn't necessarily mean that the Opera developers are more skilled than the Firefox developers when it comes to coding for Windows. Maybe they just decided differently.
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #27 on: 15 October 2005, 23:38 »
Oh yes the Opera developers have decided to do things differently which has resulted in a superiour piece of software - sorry I just couldn't help myself. :D

I think , however that this is a Windows bug rather than a Mozilla of IE bug, I don't know why it doesn't affect Opera, perhapps it's because it renders pictures differently, in Opera everything's fully zoomable and may be this has something to do with this.
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #28 on: 16 October 2005, 00:11 »
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289864
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Don't know if you know this or not but it seems that StretchBlt(...) is causing the BSOD. The graphic card is trying to stretch that image to 9999999, causing watchdog to think that the device driver is spinning in an infinite loop. Resulting in a bugcheck...
There's patches in there to stop it from rendering the image. And suposadly, it's fixed (dunno exactly what that means) in trunk (should be fixed in the 1.5 betas).
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Re: How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML
« Reply #29 on: 23 October 2005, 00:27 »
konqueror owns :)
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