On 4/17/07, J. Oquendo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
III SOLUTION Stop using Microsoft products or deal with a new advisory every other day.
As the replies have shown, this isn't limited to IE7. It happens in Firefox too, so your solution won't work. :) In this particular case, IE7 actually handles the loop better than Firefox. First, I had to actively tell IE, "Yes, I want to run the script." After a short time, IE came up with a prompt asking if I want to continue running the script because it's causing my system to be slowed down. Memory usage shot up about 200 MiB. As soon as I clicked "No" on the dialog, everything was back to normal. With Firefox, I had to close the tab manually, which wasn't exactly easy to do since Firefox was barely responding. In fact, my entire system had slowed down since Firefox was eating up about 700 MiB of memory, which pushed me into heavy virtual memory usage. It didn't DoS me. It stopped me from visiting other web pages for about a minute, but I recovered without having to restart my system. The rest of my system was completely usable while IE attempted to run the script, though that may not have been true with a single core system. There was no crash, and memory usage, while high, was reasonable. -- Troy
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