Re: IE 5.x (5.50.4522.1800 SP1) Crash at gopher://:

From: Marius Huse Jacobsen (mahujaat_private)
Date: Sun May 20 2001 - 14:25:36 PDT

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    For reference, I'm using IE 5.50.4134.0100
    
    
    From: "Fernando Merino Levadinha" <chuckat_private>
    > Hi list,
    >
    > it's seem to be a new bug, i crashed my IE 5.x (5.50.4522.1800 SP1)
    > with this URL:
    >
    > gopher://:
    
    Puts IE into a loop, that seems to spawn new threads all of the time.
    The longer it stays, the slower the computer gets, until IE (or just
    that window, not sure) is shut down. No real crashes though.
    
    > it's like an older BUG in IE 4.x (ftp://:)
    
    ftp://:    does nothing for me. (cannot find, make sure the address
    is correct)
    
    
    From: "Uidam, T (Tim)" <Tim.Uidamat_private>
    > Didn't crash on mine, just like the FTP one doesn't crash on
    > mine... As i said before, i _suspect_ that this is because i do NOT
    > have the IE Browsing enhancements installed... you know the one
    > that displays FTP sites like explorer...
    
    I have 'em.
    
    ftp://*//#./    Gives me the gopher effect.
    
    
    From: "Kayne Ian (Softlab)" <Ian.Kayneat_private>
    > I tried test://:, it did nothing. Typing me://: auto-corrected the
    > url to mk://:, if anyone knows what that is?
    >
    > So, just for a laugh I typed hello://: which auto-corrected to
    > shell://:
    
    It doesn't know those protocols on my comp.
    
    Anyway, I think I have some idea of why the "shell:" acts like it
    does. It spawns a window for each shell it gets an address to, with
    ';' as a separator?
    
    
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