Closed Bug 547118 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

sftp:// hung my fedora workstation

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: george.seaton, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.3; Linux) KHTML/4.3.5 (like Gecko) Fedora/4.3.5-2.fc12 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20100107 Fedora/3.5.6-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.6 Entered protocol sftp://hostname into location/URL bar without knowing if firefox supported it. It totally hung my F12 workstation, could not get out of X, could not ping workstation, had to perform a reset. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: I can't take the chance of hanging my workstation again. I can't take the chance of hanging my workstation again.
Firefox doesn't support sftp, it calls an external protocol handler. But that your whole workstation hangs can not be Firefox fault, it must be a kernel issue.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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