Re: FireFox bugged isolated

Mike Hall wrote:
> C. Señor wrote:
>> Mike Hall wrote:
>> Some HTML code that doesn't display correctly on a browser can be
>> blamed on the HTML, but if it crashes the browser it's a problem with
>> the browser. It's a problem with FireFox, not eBay, no HTML should be
>> cabable of crashing a browser, no matter how "cack-handed" it may be..
>
> This is definitely a problem with eBay not FireFox. There are various
> ways a FireFox screen will crash, when IE won't due to cack code; IE
> often showing the error message, if you have that option enabled. I did
> some software testing during the lean season last year and was horrified
> to see IE handle the crappiest code whilst the FF program crashed or
> froze. The instability of FireFox can be mostly put down to years of IE
> being the uncontested ruler of the Web. It it were a FireFox problem,
> it would be noticeable on the hundreds of other varied screens I browse
> per day.

So, you're saying if someone wrote some malicious HTML that will cause
Firefox to freeze or crash then no part of Firefox's code can be blamed?

A browser should ideally not crash in any event whatsoever.


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