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Terminator
Typing:
Ctrl-L, then t
in the address bar terminates immediately all browser windows.
Option 1: a.) Do I have to do both of these? Tools>Privacy>Clear Data>Clear History Tools>Privacy>Clear Data>Clear URL Bar History b.) How often do I have to clear them? c.) Which values must I not exceed for these (Preferences>History): Keep a list of pages visited in the last X days. Keep a list of X most recently visited locations. Option 2: You mentioned, in lieu of the above, compiling the code freshly. I don't know how to do that. I presume that I am setting some history value differently (to solve the bug) and then compiling that changed source to a new EXE. I didn't see steps for that in the link you provided.Thanks!
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deadlock
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Terminator
Typing:
Ctrl-L, then t
in the address bar terminates immediately all browser windows.
It is a known bug.
The count of t's in your history triggers the crash.
Browser Crashing When I Type 'A' Into URL Bar
You can reduce the size of your history in steps
to prevent browser termination.
Or, you can compile it yourself using the
information in the link above.
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Terminator
Does anyone have more info on this bug and how to combat or fix it?
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guenter
1.) I did not find this bug in the bug tracker.
Under which description or bug number is it listed?
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Terminator
As a Windows 2000 user who has hardware drivers and diverse software that continues to be fully functional (and, often, still supported and updated), I have paid particular attention, over the years, to apps that still work great for Windows 2000. For some of them, a new version is subsequently released that breaks this compatibility, but not for any technically necessary reason: The break is due to nothing more than something akin to a default compiler setting imposed by Microsoft, put there to slip by developers silently and later frustrate customers and compel them to upgrade to XP (or later). For example, the build is now referencing some XP-only DLL that is totally irrelevant and unnecessary, and this dooms backward compatibility. The developer may not even realize this break, or, if he does, resign himself to labeling the newly compiled version with the requirement "XP or later" (perhaps, subconsciously buying in to Microsoft's PR fiction that "everyone is on XP, by now.")
I am grateful that K-Meleon continues to serve us Windows 2000 users.
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JohnHell
So, with that behavior, when you type a character, or, better said, an string, that matches lots of entries, there is a memory overflow and crashes.
For example, in 1.6b2 happens to me a lot. I tend, as is normal to every internet user, to write www.whatever.com. When you type www., comes the memory overflow (loads of matches for www., what is normal, by the way) and crash. No time for crashreport plugin to catch the error.
EDIT: bug reported
I marked it as k-meleon bug because I don't know at what extent may be the history plugin the only responsible of the crash.
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deadlock
It is already in CVS.
This bug was fixed last year in urlbar.cpp Revision 1.18.