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talmage
12-29-2006, 01:09 PM
Have you experienced this? If so, what did you do to fix it?

When I read an article at the The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com) Opera shows me the first page of the article. When I select the link of the next page, Opera crashes.
Texrat
12-29-2006, 08:53 PM
The linerider site goes wacko on me. Flash is usually the culprit, or any other type or version of tech that the tablet doesn't support. Sometimes it's specific code in the site that identifies browsers as well. For instance, the lugnuts at wellsfargo.com refuse to allow Opera. So much for banking on the go...
Milhouse
12-29-2006, 09:26 PM
Have you experienced this? If so, what did you do to fix it?


Try enabling virtual memory to see if that makes any difference. If it makes no difference, your best bet would be to open a bug in the Maemo Bugzilla (https://maemo.org/bugzilla/).
delaroca
12-29-2006, 11:36 PM
Have you experienced this? If so, what did you do to fix it?

When I read an article at the The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com) Opera shows me the first page of the article. When I select the link of the next page, Opera crashes.

Not necessarily in the next link, but soon enough it does crash... alas, Opera for the 770 is not 100% robust. With the Washingtong Post pages the Minimo browser does much, much better. But Minimo, of course, has its own set of problems... though, now, in its 3rd or 4th release has come a long way!

--Denis
talmage
11-28-2007, 02:45 PM
When I read an article at the The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com) Opera shows me the first page of the article. When I select the link of the next page, Opera crashes.

First of all, I filed a bug report https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936.

Some months later, one of the bug wranglers offered me a number of suggestions. I tried disabling javascript before visiting www.washingtonpost.com. That did the trick. Opera didn't crash. Then I enabled javascript and visited www.washingtonpost.com again. Opera crashed, as predicted.

Sigh. I'm OK with that, sort of. It's not maemo's job to fix Opera. I'll switch to minimo if I can figure out how to get it into my 770.
phi
11-28-2007, 03:10 PM
you could probably update your 770 to the latest hacker edition of os2007 with microB preinstalled. No more opera bugs :)
talmage
11-28-2007, 04:44 PM
you could probably update your 770 to the latest hacker edition of os2007 with microB preinstalled. No more opera bugs :)

Yes. I'm considering that but I'll need proof that it works before I do.

I installed microB on my OS2006 770 this afternoon. It's a less stable than Opera. According to the new "Hidden" menu, I have three choices for browser engine: Mozilla, Opera, and Webcore. With javascript enabled, all of them crash when I visit www.washingtonpost.com. Webcore got through two pages of a front page article before it crashed loading the third page. The Mozilla engine seems less stable than that. It just now crashed on the front page. It's crashed about half the time on startup.

FWIW, I have VM turned on and set to 64MB. One of the previous posters suggested I turn VM on.
phi
11-28-2007, 05:14 PM
Hmm...I'll have to try and load WaPo on the 770 tonight when I get home and see.
geneven
11-28-2007, 05:30 PM
This may be no consolation, but I read the Washington Post every day from my N800 and have never had a problem.
phi
11-29-2007, 10:42 AM
Washington Post runs fine on my 770 with the latest OS2007HE with microb. Even popped up the stupid ad ok. This was tested this morning.
Drewvt
02-08-2008, 05:38 AM
It's true that washingtonpost.com has a hell of a lot going on in the background (the newest verion of the NoScript Firefox extension on my PC even warns me about cross-scripting now). 90% of the time it eventually crashes my 770's opera browser. Man, I hate that site.
rdcinhou
02-08-2008, 07:38 AM
I've encountered a couple of websites (during searches) which caused my browser to exit almost immediately on load.

I figure that they must have some type of exploit (buffer overflow?) testing on them which causes this behavior so I just go somewhere else.
aflegg
02-08-2008, 09:16 AM
It's very rare (i.e. I've never seen it) to have websites actively trying to exploit your machine. If there's a URL which repeatedly and reproducibly crashes the browser, please raise it on http://bugs.maemo.org/ - otherwise there's no guarantee it'll be fixed.

Never assume the developers see the same bugs as you.