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Mozilla vulnerates my Mac

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Wolfgang Hlawatsch - 31 Jul 2003 21:00 GMT
I was quite happy with Mozilla until I got me a router for connecting my
private net to the internet.

I plugged the router and started to connect the router with mozilla to
configure the router. The result was a system crash, and my computer
Macintosh Cube
Operating system 9.1
behaved very strange. After fiddeling about for some time it seemed to
waork again.

Now, the Mac begins struggeling again:

Visiting some Internet pages makes the computer freeze. One of them:
Ebay, search results.

After a hard reset, starting Mozilla again, the computer freezes.
Emptying the cache directory makes the Mozilla to be started again.

Now, what is most suspicious: I tried to delete the erased cache data
from the trash, and the computer freezes again, without Mozilla or any
other program running. Only when I started the computer without the
system extensions loaded (start with sift-key pressed) the computer is
able to erase the trash data. Is there any dependency of system
extensions and Mozilla?

How can the dependencies be tested? The advice by Apple is to switch
system extensions off and start the computer again. A good idea, who
wants to do this job for me? Switch system extensions, and start and
stop the computer - at least a one week's job of contiuous computer
booting :-[

I run a virus program as well as erasing the PRAM. Booting the system
from a different partition does not help either.

Is there anybody having an idea about what to do?

Wolfgang

By the way, I tried to run Opera 6 as a replacement. I receive the
message that I need MacOS 8.6 or hhigher. Very suspicious ...
bm - 31 Jul 2003 22:52 GMT
Uh, well first: what version of mozilla are you using?

Second: regardless of your answer, you should be running mozilla1.3.1
(WaMCom) under os9.2.2.

os9.1 has known issues; older versions of mozilla have known issues.

Finally: mozilla is sensitive to extensions/stuff that manipulate
incoming http-streams directly. WebFree is the classic example. The bug
filed for it was never resolved, so I can't tell you exactly why this
was.. only that it was traced to necko.

Good luck.
-bm
Wolfgang Hlawatsch - 03 Aug 2003 14:58 GMT
again ...

I tried to download 9.2.x update (German) from Apple. I had no success.

I found a different 9.2.1 Update (Eglish, I guess), even this won't open.

There must be something basicaly wrong, because my computer even refuses
to boot from a CD. Nothing helps, neither pressing the "C" key while
booting, nor setting the control panel to the CD-drive.

Is there anybody who can help?

Wolfgang
John Thomas - 03 Aug 2003 13:57 GMT
> again ...
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> Wolfgang

 Try asking this on comp.sys.mac.system

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-Regards,
John Thomas

Wolfgang Hlawatsch - 10 Aug 2003 11:41 GMT
Hello,

just to complete this section:

I updated the firmware of my computer. Presently the bug does not appear
again. I am just too careful to say: "it fixed the bug"

regards

Wolfgang
 
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