Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#270 closed defect (worksforme)

Firefox crashes after importing an article from Ingenta?

Reported by: dcohen Owned by: simon
Priority: major Milestone: 1.0 Beta 2
Component: ingester Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Bruce D'Arcus reports: "I just managed to crash Firefox after importing an article from Ingenta, realizing it incorrectly imported as a website type, and then changed it to journal article. At this point it crashed. This machine is OS X. Panther."

I tested a couple of articles and couldn't reproduce this crash. But it is weird that it shows the website icon on an article page (and I didn't even think Ingenta was supported). I thought we had gotten rid of the website icon. Ingenta is a pay-per-download article site.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by simon

Ingenta probably has Dublin Core tags, which the ingester is picking up. That's why it's appearing with a website icon; Dublin Core has no standard way of differentiating between text formats (and even then, you need the extended element set).

I have no idea why this would crash Firefox. I highly doubt it's our bug, since JavaScript shouldn't be capable of this kind of thing.

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by simon

  • Resolution set to worksforme
  • Status changed from new to closed

Since I can't reproduce this bug and it is, in any case, more likely to be a Firefox bug, I am hereby closing it.

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