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Watch out for crashes!
Authored by: klktrk on Nov 10, '05 12:57:45PM

Dragging the link at the top of this hint "drag URL to Dock tip", over the my BBEdit icon in the dock brought my system completely to its knees forcing a hard restart. When I did it again (I'm an idiot), I saw it slowly crashing program after program in my session and hurried to restart the computer before the underlying processes froze as well.

Obviously, I'm not going to keep testing this, so I guess I'll never find out if the culprit is BBEdit, or Camino. My hunch is that it's BBEdit, since it's a Carbon application.



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Watch out for crashes!
Authored by: vramin on Nov 10, '05 02:31:44PM

I tried the same thing from Firefox with the same result so the culpret still isn't known. Both use Mozilla.

I plan to leave further testing to others since I use my desktop box as a web server.



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No crash for me...
Authored by: hamarkus on Nov 10, '05 04:59:27PM

No crash for me, 10.3.9., Camino to TextEdit, SubEthaEdit, TextWrangler.
But then again nothing happens when I drag the link to the Safari icon, so this might work only in Tiger or I am not dragging it "correctly".



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Watch out for crashes!
Authored by: glowsienna on Nov 10, '05 05:55:03PM

No crash for me as I dragged text from Camino to BBEdit. BBedit created a new document with the text selection.



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Watch out for crashes!
Authored by: vramin on Nov 11, '05 02:30:11AM

I'm not really recommending trying it, but the problem we're talking about happens when we drag a link to BBEdit. Text works fine.



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Re: Watch out for crashes!
Authored by: Uncle Asad on Nov 11, '05 04:00:03AM

That's Camino bug 300044 / Firefox bug 301619, which is believed to be an Apple bug and has been reported to Apple as such.

This hint, and the associated crashes/instability, are 10.4-only, even though robg has neglected to mark the hint as such ;)



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