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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:39:15 +0000
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On 15/03/2025 19:47, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:02:55 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> I wrote a website that used a lot of javascript,.  Tested against Linux
>> Firefox. I was in my local PC supplier, who is a friend and I said 'look
>> at my new website'
>>
>> His latest greatest Windows PC running MS browser promptly blue
>> screened.
>>
>> "I haven't seen that for years" he said...
> 
> I've written a lot of JavaScript and I've never seen it. The earlier IE
> JavaScript engines sucked mightily but all they ever did was slow the
> rendering to a crawl.
> 
> Our web application was Angular, which is all JavaScript, and if there was
> a problem it would show up in Firefox, but again it was only strange
> rendering. We always recommended Chrome or Edge after Edge became Chrome
> based.
> 
I haven't a clue either why it happened, but it did.

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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the 
other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

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