From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 10 03:21:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA04658 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 03:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA04627; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 03:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA17891; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:02:12 +0100 Message-ID: <34E03378.C8B9DF30@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:01:12 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ludwig Pummer , Donald Burr , FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Excessive crashing of Netscape? References: <3.0.3.32.19980209113819.0075bc78@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ludwig Pummer wrote: > > At 10:26 AM 2/9/98 +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > > >I run Netscape 4.04 regularly on FreeBSD and Solaris SPARC boxes, > >and those problems happen with both machine types, identically. > >I think that the problem is in the UNIX port of Netscape. > > > > I wouldn't say this is limited to the Unix port. Netscape 4 for Win95 > crashes quite regularly on the 3 machines in my house that run it, and on > those it locks up the whole machine. > But then I've also heard of people who have absolutely no problems with > Netscape 4 for Win95. I don't have any problems with Netscape 4 for FreeBSD > (2.2.5, running XFree 3.3.1). > --Ludwig Pummer I think that most Netscape 4.04 problems are related to the mail/news reader. Web browsing is fairly stable, but the mail reader has some flaws. I have not tested NS4 for W95, but I also use regularly NS4 for Macintosh and it runs pretty well; crashes and locks are rare. I must say that I use NS4 as mail reader because of its IMAP capabilities, mailbox management and filters, but I have to kill-9 the NS process almost every day on both FreeBSD and SPARC/Solaris boxes. In summary, the problems with Netscape 4.04 that I have seen running it on FreeBSD 2.2.5 also happen when running NS4 on Solaris/SPARC, with ONE exception: on FreeBSD 2.2.5/XFree86 3.3.1, and when I open a mailbox or a newsgroup, NS4 locks itself for several seconds after reading the message headers; then it awake and after that it behaves normally. This problem does not manifest itself on SPARC/Solaris. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-4-4647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message