Last modified: 2013-05-12 21:30:13 UTC
For unrelated reasons I need to use Opera 9.64. I assume wikipedia should be usable on all browsers, including old versions mandated by organizations etc. When going to any wikipedia page, Opera segfaults as soon as the page loads. Due to it being a binary browser, I can't offer a backtrace or any guess as to why it crashes. Example link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level Going in via Google cache avoids the crash, so likely it's something depending on the browser identifying as Opera, and the code/css served then. It's been happening for the last 3-4 days, but I'm not sure when it started, since I rarely go on wikipedia. Could be as much as two months.
As suggested in IRC, I tried going to mediawiki.org as it should be the same version. It does not crash.
No crash on de.wikipedia.org/* either. So seems isolated to the English wikipedia.
No crash when JS is disabled. So seems it's Javascript and only on en.wikipedia.
Adding ?debug=true on any page also avoids the crash.
Per comment 3 and comment 4, this probably has something to do with ResourceLoader's minifying one of the experimental EEE extensions or something. As an avid Opera user, I distinctly remember some older Operas having trouble with aggresively minified JS. Moving to ResourceLoader component.
Opera 9 is also used in the Wii and DS browsers, so if this happens in them as well, this bug is slightly more important than it looks at first glance.
Cannot reproduce. I installed Opera 9.64 from http://www.oldversion.com/windows/download/opera-9-64 , ran it, navigated to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level , clicked around – no segfault occurred. Logged in – still okay. Closing as WFM.
