[CS-FSLUG] It's not an OT post it's a.........

[David McGlone]

On Thursday 05 February 2009 6:53:56 am Ed Hurst wrote:
> David McGlone wrote:
> > Why in the world would anyone pick Firefox over Opera? Opera just blows
> > firefox out of the water, waaaaay out out the water. Opera's speed dial
> > is cool! way better than a bookmark!

>
> Opera developers are making some serious errors in how they structure
> the thing. It is the only browser I know of capable of causing the X
> server to hang, repainting itself on every desktop, even after the
> process is dead. Just recently Opera locked up on some bad JScript (to
> which Opera seems always vulnerable) and I couldn't get it off the
> screen even after I logged out. I had to reboot.

What does "repainting itself on every desktop" mean? Does it like, put itself 
on every virtual desktop? Like if I have 16 virtual desktops, it will put an 
hidden instance on each one?
>
> If the thing fails, it should simply crash and disappear. Opera errors
> out very, very poorly. This has remained an issue since at least Opera
> 5.0, and my bug reports to them mean nothing, because it still does the
> same thing. In fact, it locks up on the same sites, sites which are
> otherwise harmless to the likes of FF, Seamonkey, etc.

That isn't good.

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David M.
http://www.dmcentral.net