On Monday 21 July 2003 03:33 pm, Toad wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 05:59:25PM -0400, Nick Tarleton wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:24 am, pineapple wrote:
> > > Just wanted to say that there is an active link on TFE
> > > called NIM Killer that crashes mozilla/firebird
> > > browsers. I tried the very latest version of both
> > > browsers and this happens. I got around the problem
> > > by turning off image loading. Didn't try IE. Can
> > > something be done about this in the short term.
> > > Discouraging people from using mozilla/firebird is
> > > probably not a good thing from an anonymity
> > > standpoint. Maybe something could be added to the
> > > anonymity filter until this is fixed by the
> > > mozilla/firebird people?
> >
> > I'm for sending hate-mail to CofE until he takes the activelink off TFE.
> > The image is malformed and will crash pretty much anything that tries to
> > view it - not just Mozilla/Firebird. Maybe an anonymity filter thing
> > could be added to filter out bad images, but is that part of the Freenet
> > job description?
>
> No, it is not. However, what do you mean by crashing?
Grabbing vast amounts of memory and slowing the system to a one-legged sloth's
pace. Tested in Kuickshow and xli.
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