[CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

[MHR]

On Jan 8, 2008 9:58 AM, Ben Mohilef <benm at dsl-only.net> wrote:
>
> > Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I
> > noticed that every so often,
> > seemingly at random, although it appears most frequently when I
> > click on something that wants
>
> I have also experienced this problem and characterized it briefly by
> unscientific trial and error (FWIW). I found that whenever it dies it is
trying
> to open a new window per javascript ALERT or CONFIRM directives. This
> happens intermittently and NONrepeatably on both 32 and 64 bit flavours of
> 5.1 and no other js commands seem to be related (including whether a
> flash file is or is not being displayed). This started late last year. It
was not
> so much of a nusiance that I bothered to see what updates coincided with
it
> then and I would just be guessing if I looked back now.
>
> The problem seems to lie in the code by which FF/SM open windows in
> those two javascript commands.  I run Adblock, noscript, NViIDIA's
> proprietary drivers, kde and permissive selinux.  Nothing of interest
appears
> in /var/log/<anything> or dmesg coincident with the failure.
>
Interesting - that might explain it, but only if SM uses JS to create its
local Save To File or other input windows, which I couldn't say (never
looked at the source).

I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks.

mhr
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