#34585 [Bgs]: php.net causes Firefox to freeze

ID: 34585 User updated by: php at transpect dot com Reported By: php at transpect dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Gentoo Linux PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: Curious. The page fully loads for me too -- it's then that it freezes. Could you scroll? As for "buggy desktop stuff," I'm running a standard KDE installation. There's nothing particularly weird or customized about this workstation. Nor am I asking you to "help" me with it. If nobody else sees this problem -- odd. My bet would be that others just aren't as considerate in reporting bugs to you. There's been a notable lowering of standards across much of the open source movement in the last couple of years. I've been with it since '93, and this isn't the only place I'm now seeing much less respect for careful bug reports. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-09-22 18:21:27] goba@php.net Once again, please understand: our site works with Firefox. Whatever buggy desktop stuff you have we cannot help with. Just so that we are using similar software, I also installed the noscript extension (on top of the extensions I already have), and just as I anticipated, I encoutered no problems. If this is hard to beleive, look here for a screen grab: http://xs.to/xs.php?f=Screenshot.png&h=xs47&d=05384 Notice that the page is fully loaded and that noscript is in effect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-09-22 17:21:06] php at transpect dot com With respect, it is generally accepted that it is the responsibility of Website authors to maintain compatibility with at least the major browsers. Mozilla Firefox is a major browser (particularly popular among those coding PHP) and the noscript extension is also reasonably common of late (one of the most-used, certainly). The bug, properly analyzed, is probably in the interaction of the site and noscript -- but no other sites of the many I visit are having this problem. So it's something you could avoid by recoding the php.net site. If you don't want to adopt a professional attitude about your site code, that's of course your business. But then, since PHP has become more of a Zend corporate thing, and less of a Rasmus amateur thing, professionalism about Web coding compatibility might be in order. If it were one of my sites, I'd fix it. Sorry for the attitude, but as a longtime PHP coder I'd like to see you guys continue to strive for the highest standards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-09-22 11:25:36] sniper@php.net It's obviously some bug in the browser, not in the website.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-09-21 21:38:55] php at transpect dot com goba, Thanks for checking. The real test might be to try installing the noscript extension in your Firefox, with it defaulting to blocking all sites, and see if Firefox then freezes up on php.net. It's via noscript that I have JavaScript (partially) turned off. Haven't had it freeze up on other sites.... I'll build a more recent Firefox soon and test that against the site, to see if the difference is there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-09-21 21:12:12] goba@php.net Our site obviously works with Firefox with or without JavaScript, we have no dependency whatsoever on JavaScript. i have just tried my 1.0.6 (Ubuntu) with and without JavaScript (I use the Web developer toolbar and a dozen other extensions), but I have encountered no problem. Until someone can produce this, we cannot do anything for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/34585 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=34585&edit=1