From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 14:45: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1553A37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C03F43E6E for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H4K00KHR4EQDQ@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:44:50 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml1so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.145]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H4K00DDW4ER6J@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:44:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net [24.82.238.48]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H4K00EJ34EQ93@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:44:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9PLinOf041650; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:44:49 -0500 (CDT envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: (from robin@localhost) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9PLik2I041649; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:44:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:44:45 -0500 From: Robin Damm Subject: Re: Whither Mozilla ? In-reply-to: <60227.1035571709@monkeys.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20021025214445.GA41509@lulu.bad.dog> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <60227.1035571709@monkeys.com> X-Authentication-warning: lulu.bad.dog: robin set sender to robin@damm.ca using -f Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:48:29AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > Could someone please answer the following questions for me? > > #2) Is there anyplace where I might be able to download a working > binary of a reasonably recent release of Mozilla that would run > OK on a FreeBSD 4.3 system? (I don't have time to upgrade this > box to a newer FreeBSD rev just now. To0 many other things going > on.) FreeBSD binaries of mozilla 1.0 and 1.1 are available at . I don't know if these will run under 4.3. > > #3) In lieu of #2, is there anyplace where I could download sources > for a reasonable recent (and reasonably stable) version of Mozilla > that I could build (without having to spend a full day futzing with > it) on FreeBSD 4.3? I assume you have tried /usr/ports/www/mozilla. You may also want to check out /usr/ports/www/linux-mozilla which will run the linux binary via emulation. Building mozilla from source is going to take as long as a buildworld so it might make sense to just upgrade your system. > #4) Is it just me or is Mozilla (and also Netscape) remarkably unstable > and prone to frequent total crashes on _any_ flavor of UNIX? (Even > though I have both FreeBSD and Linux boxes here, there are still > sites that I simply cannot see... at least not without the broswer > up and crashing on me... unless I power up my Windoze box and look > at them with IE. Yecch. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? This is REALLY > aggravating, and I can't believe that other people would put up > with such shoddy untestedness in such a basic Internet tool.) No problems here aside from the occasional "designed" for IE site. I don't think I've seen a total crash since the .9x releases. NN4 on the other hand... thank $DEITY for mozilla. -- Robin Damm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message