This site hangs FF 1.5.0.1 in Linux

http://www.taxesq.com

re:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.8.0.1)
Gecko/20060313
Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 Firefox/1.5.0.1


The above site puts up a javascript alert that goes into a loop and you
can't get out of it without killing the process.... unless someone has a
better idea?

Al

 

Grrrrr, what a piss-sh*t site. I tried it in IE, but it disabled my
entire copy and paste -- I mean the whole computers copy and paste. I
had to reboot.

I finally got in by spoofing the User Agent. Thats when I'm
pretending I'm using IE eventhough I'm using FF:
http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/

The site also failed validation:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline
so its not a very good site.

 

I run Linux so I don't know WinXP too well, but could you not have used the
ctl-alt-del Task Manager to kill the FF process instead of rebooting?

In the Linux KDE window manager (at least with Kanotix) you can hit
ctl-alt-esc and you get a skull & crossbones cursor and whatever window you
click on will cause the parent process to be killed immediately.

I agree it's not a good site but maybe a bug report should be filed. To my
way of thinking a website should never be able to 'bring down' a
well-engineered browser. There should be some kind of override available so
as to close the tab or window without killing the entire FF session.


Al

 

I tried that website, got the looping message and all i had to do was
close the tab. No need to kill any processes.

The website is probably not worth the time, so i did what i usually do
with such sites: don't bother and get on with my life.

 

I couldn't close the tab at first. But I clicked the "OK" button on the
pop-up and held the esc key down. That seemed to screw up the javascript
enough so that I could then close the window.

First time I've ever seen a site do something like that.

anc

 

I said I tried it in IE and it disabled the entire copy and paste, in
every program I tried. I had to reboot in order to cancel that.