[Sussex] Make IE 7 crash

[Richie Jarvis]

Steve Dobson wrote:
> John/Antony
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:28 +0000, John Crowhurst wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, January 31, 2008 11:09, Antony wrote:
>>     
>>> "Tim Smith" <timsmith714 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Don't know about IE but Opera crashed twice trying to read the email!
>>>> Now all I need is IE to include an anti-bookmark list
>>>>         
>>> Another annoyance is those sites that gobble 100% CPU, so that most
>>> times you can't even close the tab.  I kill the browser and with it the
>>> open tabs list, which if you're like me is a todo list in itself.  And
>>> it's tricky to restart the browser, since the rogue page is now in the
>>> current tabs list: use it or lose it.
>>>
>>> Workarounds, anyone?
>>>       
>> Stop using IE?
>>
>> I'm sure firefox should be written with a timer that counts down when a
>> tab or windows has stopped responding and gives the user the chance to
>> stop or close it without affecting the other sessions. A feature that
>> flushes the memory when you close a tab would be useful too.
>>     
>
> Just  hit the stop button, that aborts the loading of the current tab.
> I've just tried it and that's what happened.  Normally  I just hit the
> kill button on the tab if the page isn't loading to my liking and that
> works too.  And I can do that to a backgrounded tab, it doesn't have to
> be the one on display.
>
> Steve
>
>
>   
Doesn't work when a plugin such as java/flash causes the issue :(