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Re: Opera 8.51 stalls while loading stories from The Register

Subject: Re: Opera 8.51 stalls while loading stories from The Register
From: Matthew Winn
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:02:00 +0000 UTC
Newsgroups: opera.general
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:37:11 -0500, Lee Harvey <leeharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Bob Cunningham wrote:
> > Opera 8.51 (on Win2K) load The Register front page fine
> > (http://www.theregister.com/), but hangs when loading any story. It
> > seems the first 15 page items are loaded, but the 16th causes a hang.
> >
> > All of The Register pages load very rapidly under Firefox 1.5.
> >
> > So, does Opera hate The Register, or does The Register hate Opera?  I
> > think I smell a news story here!
> 
>  This seems to be a recurring theme, which may indicate a real problem with 
>  8.51 -- albeit, difficult to replicate on a consistent basis.  For another 
>  example, see Paul's thread titled, "Why does Opera 8.51 load a website, then 
>  stop?" dated 2005/11/29 in opera.general.  I haven't spent any time on the 
>  Opera web forums, so perhaps there's some more relevant info there. 

I often see this, and it's been a problem for many years.  Opera seems
to overlook the closing of a connection, so it'll sit there forever
waiting for notification of the end of connection that is already closed.

-- 
Matthew Winn
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