Bug? Google News
Mahindra Parmar
http://news.google.co.uk/news/en/uk/technology.html but as I scroll down the
page the browser (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5a)
Gecko/20030729 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1) crashes and also crashes my computer.
I can't find the exact point on the web-page that it's crashing at.
Is this a bug or is it just my computer?
Also, when I was searching Google UK and viewing some of the cached pages
the same crash happened.
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the two pages you mention.
Does it crash using IE? Try loading the page and then viewing the source before
you scroll down. See if the whole source has loaded.
Google uses no javascript or tricky html of which I'm aware. Do other Google
News pages work okay?
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Mahindra Parmar
"box file" <box...@NOSPAMmail.com> wrote in message
news:bhg2h0$4p...@ripley.netscape.com...
I've downloaded a version of Firebird optimized for Pentium 3 and I tried
the page(s) again and there are no problems. Maybe Google changed something
recently as I doubt that there was something wrong with my computer.
Anyway thanks for your help!
Mahindra Parmar
"box file" <box...@NOSPAMmail.com> wrote in message
news:bhg2h0$4p...@ripley.netscape.com...
Sorry, sopke too soon, it's happening again.
The error is happening around the end of this code:
tr><td colspan=2><a class=y
href="/url?q=http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32326.html">Blaster
worm variants make mischief</a><br><font size=-1><b><font color=#6f6f6f>The
Register -</font> 9 hours ago</b><br>Anti-virus firms are
warning of the appearance of fresh variants of the Blaster worm, the first
version of which created chaos by crashing numerous vulnerable Windows
machines earlier this week. <br><a
href="/url?q=http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6951092%25255E1
5306,00.html">Blaster copycat appears</a> <font
class=f>NEWS.com.au</font><br><a
href="/url?q=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/14/1060588496926.html
">Kaspersky says modified version of Windows worm has started
circulating</a> <font class=f>The Age</font><br><font class=p><a
href="/url?q=http://www.theinquirer.net/%3Farticle%3D11018">The
Inquirer</a> - <a
href="/url?q=http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp%3FAr
ticleID%3D43915">CRN</a> - <a
href="/url?q=http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php%3Fpage_id%3Dwormsettoblastm
i1060769881%26area%3Dnews">Out-Law.com</a> - <a
href="/url?q=http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml%3Farti
cleID%3D13100170">InternetWeek.com</a> - <a
href="/news?num=30&hl=en&edition=uk&q=cluster:www%2eout%2dlaw%2ecom%2fphp%2f
page%2ephp%3fpage%5fid%3dwormsettoblastmi1060769881%26area%3dnews"><b>and&nb
sp;16 related »</b></a></font></font></td></tr></table><tabl
e border=0 width=75% valign=top cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0>
And Google do seem to be using some javascript scripts on these pages.
I've tried moving down the page while the page is still loading and while
the page has fully loaded yet it still seems to crash the system. I managed
to get the crash data but I doubt its any help, here it is:
MOZILLAFIREBIRD caused a divide error in module <unknown> at 0000:00000204.
Registers:
EAX=89800000 CS=003b EIP=00000204 EFLGS=00000097
EBX=00000001 SS=39b7 ESP=00000fd0 EBP=0000b450
ECX=00000898 DS=2017 ESI=00000001 FS=0ee7
EDX=00000000 ES=1957 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
cd 30 cd 30 cd 30 cd 30 cd 30 cd 30 cd 30 cd 30
Stack dump:
003b0204 913f0006 02460337 361fb400 c4800000 0032ed43 00f3edf1 117f1677
02171777 020f01b7 00320037 003b0204 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Hope you can help!?!?
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this bug using Firebird, I'd guess that this is something to do with your own
setup. Go through the normal checklist: have you installed anything recently
that might be causing a conflict (particularly apps with spyware like Kazaa or
iMesh)? Are any other apps producing errors?
A Google search on this suggests that a whole range of things might be producing
the problem:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=%22divide+error%22+%22module+%3Cunknown%3E%22
Try browsing through some of these pages and see if anything rings a bell,
particular connected to whatever OS you're using.
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Mahindra Parmar
"box file" <box...@NOSPAMmail.com> wrote in message
I had a look through the list you gave me and none ring a bell as the error
message that came up doesn't specify where the divide error occurred. I also
test whether this crash happens on another of my windows 98SE computers and
I get the same crash. I don't have any spyware installed and haven't really
installed much latelt that would affect Firebird to cause the crash.
I've also tried deleting the profiles and re-installing Firebird but the
same thing happens. When I previously had Netscape installed the same crash
was happening on both computers as well.
Any suggestions?