[CALUG] (solved) konqueror is funny (crash)

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Ken Jackson wrote:

> The fact that a single malformed web page can crash a browser
> is proof positive that that browser has a bug.
>
> I didn't think of it till this morning--too late, but I was going to
> save that page and come up with as small of a page as I could that
> would crash Konqueror and put it on my own site to preserve it.
> Then I would post a bug report referencing it.
>
> And what a bug report that would be!  Here, just visit this site
> and Konqueror immediately crashes.
>
> But I briefly searched <https://bugs.kde.org/query.cgi>, and found
> that at least one other site has been reported already.
> Warning!  This crashes Konqueror: <http://www.webmail.us/testvirus>
>
> It was reported in this bug report:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126636
>

According to wikipedia the engine used by konqueror KHTML has a fork - 
webkit which is used in the Safari and Chrome browsers as well as the 
current Epiphany browser. I can state that Epiphany 2.30.2 is not crashed 
by the Waltech page.

I use Epiphany often when I do not want to have the browser use resources 
they way Firefox does. However there is/was a bug I have not been able 
to properly characterize in Epiphany which will not only crash the 
browser but freeze my whole system. It relates to selecting a graphic and 
not being able to cancel the selection.

My problem is that I am not a good touch typeist and some mistaken key 
combination will trigger this bug. Alas I will not have been looking at 
the keyboard when I trigger it:-)


> -Ken
>
> On 02/05/2011 01:11 PM, Walt Smith wrote:
>> Thanks all who answered.  And those who confirmed the problem.
>> I deleted the offending lines of code pointed out by Rajiv
>> and konqueror works on that site.  One error message in some status
>> bar indicated "source" something something, and I had wrongly assumed
>> the site wasn't being reached.  I never would have suspected
>> the html code itself would have crashed the browser.
> ...
>
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