Firefox crashes on a bad .gif?

[Larry Cook]

Ben Scott wrote:
> On 3/16/06, Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:
>> Found it: http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/360arrows-r-nogray.gif
> 
>   FWIW, that loads without crashing with Firefox 1.5.0.0 on WinXP (I'm
> at work right now, where all the Linux I have is text-only).  I see a
> bunch of triangles in a row, each at a different rotation angle.  It
> looks like an animated GIF that got "unwound" somehow.

I was puzzled by this at first too.  Turns out that each triangle is at 
a different angle.  The appropriate one is displayed on the compass to 
indicate the wind direction.

Larry