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derleth on Oct 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...

Every time I try Python or Ruby, the interpreter loads almost fully and then freezes.

Lua and Scheme work fine. Also, good job on allowing me to close the tab after I managed to get QBasic locked in an infinite loop. :-) (Dual-core likely helped.)

Firefox 7.0, x86 (32-bit), running on Ubuntu 11.04, x86-64.

amasad on Oct 1, 2011 [–]

Yes this is a regression with firefox 7+ browsers, the creator of emscripten (@kripken) has already opened a bug in it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687951 .

And ya, we try to sandbox most of our languages inside a Web Worker, which leaves the main thread intact incase of infinite loops and such.

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