[Etoys] [Bug] Closing an Etoy plugin tab in FireFox forces closure of FireFox

[Jerome Peace]

Forgot to post to list


--- On Sat, 4/18/09, Jerome Peace <peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Jerome Peace <peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Etoys] [Bug] Closing an Etoy plugin tab in FireFox forces closure of FireFox
> To: "Markus Schlager" <m.slg at gmx.de>
> Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 6:18 PM
> --- On Sat, 4/18/09, Markus Schlager <m.slg at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Markus Schlager <m.slg at gmx.de>
> > Subject: Re: [Etoys] [Bug] Closing an Etoy plugin tab
> in FireFox forces closure of FireFox
> > To: "OLPC Etoys"
> <etoys at lists.laptop.org>
> > Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 11:27 AM
> > Hi Milan,
> > 
> > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> > 
> > > On April 17, 2009, Jerome Peace wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> As I continue to explore squeak/etoys in a
> new
> > enviornment ( Ubuntu 8.04) I
> > >> keep come upon surprises.
> > >>
> > >> This is the latest. There is a bug report on
> Jira.
> > Though I don't think it
> > >> got filed under the etoys catagory.
> > >>
> > >> This seems like a problem with the embedding
> > script.
> > >> It doesn't matter whether I have exited
> etoys
> > or it is still running.
> > >> When I close the tab the browser abruptly
> quits.
> > >
> > > Jerome,
> > >
> > > I assume browser=firefox? What version?
> > >
> > 
> > Same problem here, ubuntu 8.04 with firefox 3.0.*, at
> the
> > moment 3.0.8
> >
> Yep. same one.
> 
> copied from about box:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8)
> Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.8
> 
> Is there someway to modify the embedding phase that avoids
> the shutdown? Way easier that getting everybody to upgrade
> pass the difficulty. My suspicion is this can be a problem
> in other browsers too.
> 
> In curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace