[ILUG] Re: NS crash (was[ILUG] Debian 2.1 CD's)

[Gordon Lalor]

On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 08:34:58AM +0100, Paul Curtayne wrote:
> Well, I've just looked at www.navy.mil (On Netscape 4.5, Windows 95 -
> sorry!) and I can report the following:
> 
> it didn't crash
> However, it's got a lot of javascript which does seem to be optimised
> for NS > 3.x rather than IE. (I don't think this is your problem)
> 
> The one unusual thing is its's got a sound (.wav) file embedded in it
> at the end. It's a really tacky ship's bell sound.
> I don't know anything about your system (eg sound card etc) and how
> 4.08 treats embedded sound but this looks like a smoking gun to me.
> 
> Can you hear the sound? Can you usually play .wav files on your
> machine?
> Perhaps others can expand on how this might crash Netscape....?

I've played around with netscape since and it looks like you're right,
when i try to play a .wav file in netscape it crashes. The installer 
for netscape for debian uses a plug-in called plugger to handle multi-
media type stuff, unfortunetly it doesn't set up the plugin. So when 
plugger gets the wav file it just goes belly up and takes netscape 
with it. Now to configure the damn thing.

Thanks,

Gordon