[Sussex] Make IE 7 crash

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Thu Jan 31 15:27:51 UTC 2008


John

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:06 +0000, John Crowhurst wrote:
> On Thu, January 31, 2008 14:53, Steve Dobson wrote:
> > Richie
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:47 +0000, Richie Jarvis wrote:
> >> Doesn't work when a plugin such as java/flash causes the issue :(
> >
> > The stop button may not, but the kill/close does.  At least on my Linux
> > laptop.
> 
> Doesn't that defeat the point of having a working browser if you kill it
> off when a tab dies, what about all the other tabs you have open? Wouldn't
> it be better to have something in the browser that actively manages its
> tabs, something like VMware for tabs.

Not the application kill button, but the tab kill/close button.  All my
other tabs remain untouched.

With my version of Firefox (well Iceweasel; I run Debian [1]) there is
even a way of restoring a tab you closed by mistake. 

Steve

[1] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128
Iceweasel/2.0.0.11 (Debian-2.0.0.11-1)





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