Star Coding Misstep Forces New Firefox Release
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Jul 2005 16:22 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones The open-source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client will be updated for the second time in a week because of code changes that have stopped some third-party extensions from functioning correctly.
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RE: Far better than the alternatives?
by on Tue 19th Jul 2005 12:15 UTC in reply to "Far better than the alternatives?"

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> [...]taking me to task for using the word crash instead of hang, a distinction I've never heard of[...]

Well, that's a problem because they both are very different things and should not be confused.
A crash (eg: memory corruption) is usually worse than a hang (eg: threading issues).

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