From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 26 6:43:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from angel.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DC8150B0 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 06:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mvergall@ns.double-barrel.be) Received: from ns.double-barrel.be (ns.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.18]) by angel.double-barrel.be (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA02497; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:42:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ns.double-barrel.be (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA04659; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:42:29 +0100 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:42:29 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: David Malone Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape Looping In-Reply-To: <9903261304.aa10667@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, David Malone wrote: > I see netscape freezes at home all the time, but never with the machines > in college. I do now have a rather weird workaround at home, where I run > ico (you know that x program which bounces an icosahedron around the screen) > before running netscape, netscape then takes a while to start 'cos the screen > is so busy, and then kill it once the netscape window pops up! what the hell ... me think you crazy but... > A bit icky - but it works all the time. Without it netscape never starts. Do you use the static version for linux with the linux module loaded ? because even on my 486 it works fine aldo slowly at loadtime becuase the box only has 32Mb of RAM. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message