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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 14 May 2003 keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:

> > On Opera 6.03: it did crash on me yesterday.  I had it going full screen
> > and was moving the mouse around.  I noted that when I would drag the
> > cursor to the corners of the screen, some pop-up navigation buttons would
> > appear.  I was dragging the cursor around to the corners to investigate
> > further when suddenly the browser window just vanished.  Perhaps if one
> > doesn't use the mouse, crashes of this sort can be avoided.  But it does
> > seem like a bug in 6.03.
>
> I have not tried Opera 6.03 with a mouse.  There is nothing that you need
> a mouse for that I know of.  When these navigation buttons appeared were
> you in the mode that displays buttons or in full-screen mode?  I can try
> to reproduce your crash if you give me more details.  By 'the window just
> vanished' do you mean you got a blank screen?  Were you online at the
> time?  I get a blank screen when I toggle to full-screen mode without
> having any page loaded (offline).
>
Whether or not one "needs" a mouse under Opera, it is written to function
with one.  The fact that the program acts strangely when using a standard
feature means that there are bugs in the code.  I wanted to make that
point and I think the point still stands.  If Opera 6.03 gets recommended
as a browser for BL2, it should therefore be with the caveat that it seems
to be buggy with certain mouse actions.

As I mention in my post "I had it going full screen."  To me, that means
without the toolbar.  By "the window just vanished" I mean that what
happens when you switch from full screen and back (using the F11 key)
happened, with the difference that the browser window never reappeared.
It quit, shut down, or otherwise just disappeared from view permanently.
The only way to get it back was to restart the program (which picked up
where it left off at the crash).  Yes, I was online.  That, along with
info included in my initial post, should be enough detail to try and
recreate the crash.

James