Adobe, Microsoft, and Apple — The BugBlog Report

Here are some of the most significant bugs from the past week in the BugBlog:

According to the Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows Read Me, if you create a CSS file in Dreamweaver that is exactly 8192 bytes, or some multiple of 8192 bytes, in size, Dreamweaver will crash. It also won't restart until you change the size of that stylesheet. Luckily, you don't have to use Dreamweaver — any text editor, including Windows Notepad, will do. Open the file there, and add or subtract a few characters or comments.

Connect a USB telephony device to a Windows Vista computer, and Vista may decide to make it the default audio device. That should play havoc with audio/visual applications. Microsoft says this is because Vista sees that the device has audio capabilities, but doesn't determine the correct kind. There is a hotfix for this, which will be in a future service pack. If you need it right away, see the MS KnowledgeBase. 

Just to point out the obvious — the recently-released Apple Safari for Windows is still a beta product. Beta products are supposed to have bugs. In this case, Symantec (and others) point out that Safari for Windows is vulnerable to a number of well-known browser exploits, including denial of service and remote code exploits. Read more at Symantec.

Article Author: Bruce Kratofil

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