Crashing Issues with OW 4.1b1

[Bo Ahlberg]

I¹m getting frequent crashes (for which the crash reports don¹t make it far
enough to get out by email) from several sites. The most prevalent site for
these crashes is www.macfora.com.

Symptoms:  OW 4.1b1 (after something like 4 to 5 crashes a day... this
sequence seems related)
1. Initial indicator of a pending crash is a ³delayed² link ­ this is where
when a link if clicked OW pauses like it has not received the click event
message. By moving the Mouse the event seems to get recognized and the link
is processed. The pause is not an actual wait period, rather it is  more
like a freeze in that the wait period is determined by the time before mouse
motion.

2. Next Link click is responded to fairly quickly, however window draw is
slow with an extended beach ball time.

3. With a fairly high level of consistency the next link clicked will cause
a crash of OW. 

The time frame and activity leading up to this sequence of events seems to
be variable enough that I cannot place any specific steps or issues on it.
My experience has ranged from a near instant Crash to hours of connectivity
without issue. I¹ve had the same crash behavior from other sites... However
the one listed above is the most consistent.

System config:
PowerBook G3/500 512M RAM ­ 18G (8G Free)
Mac OS 10.1.2
Major Apps installed:
Office X
Corel Graphics Suite for X
Netscape for X
AIM for X
Solscape

Typical Co-Run environment for OW
Entourage X
iTunes
SetiAtHome
SetiDock (Application version)

Frequent Co-Run Applications
Word X
Excel X
Explorer 5.1 (Some apps don¹t seem to want to listen to the Internet
Settings....)

Bo...
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