Comment 36 for bug 854626

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In , Hans-immel (hans-immel) wrote :

(In reply to comment #27)
> Three more points of advocacy, I'll be brief:
>
> 1. Users may be under-reporting this bug because there is no indication the
> crash/recovery cycle is due to footnotes or endnotes. I had a difficult time
> tracing it to this bug. In fact, the crash does not seem like a crash. WinXP
> does not give the usual crash response. The program just closes after closing a
> document, which would be normal in MS Word.
>
> 2. Users may be under-reporting this bug because they are still on the 3.3
> branch.
>
> 3. Almost all academic publishing uses footnotes, or more commonly, endnotes.
> All my documents crash, so far.

I would stronly support these tree points. I have lots of dokuments with footnotes. For this reason I have gone back to 3.3 branch.