Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:31:33 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005302222400.802-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005301814240.62254-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
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Well, Netscape is rather bad, but recent 4.7x versions have been better. I have used it and it seems ok, but I have had problems with X crashing and cannot fix that. (need help there) Maybe you could use this... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/x11-fonts/mozilla-fonts/pkg/DESCR My Netscape was crashing until I installed some fonts for java applets. This does not appear to be the same thing. Perhaps Mozilla will be more stable for you, although I think that project is a ways from having a complete browser... for the Mac at least. I have not tried Mozilla for FreeBSD yet. I have had enough trouble with the Mac version. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? http://www.greasydaemon.com/noms/ <- Why avoid MS? On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > Tried that. I've reinstalled repeatedly, different versions, Communicator > vs. Netscape. They all crash. Moreover, I've been using Netscape on AIX, > Irix, Solaris, and Linux, besides FreeBSD, for the last 5 years or so. > They've all been variably unstable. Even when everything else on the > machine is stable. I've concluded that either Netscape is inherently > unstable no matter the platform, or it just doesn't like me. :-) > > Ken Bolingbroke > hacker@bolingbroke.com > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, BWS - Offwhite wrote: > > > I had problems with Netscape at one point. Simply use pkg_delete to > > remove all traces of it and add the most recent version you can get. I > > think tha tis 4.73 right now. > > > > This worked for me. > > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > > > > Yup. Crashes regularly, and I don't even use it that heavily. All the > > > windows disappear, and the prompt from where I started it reports "Bus > > > error netscape (core dumped)". This is Communicator version > > > 4.72. > > > > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Cliff Rowley wrote: > > > > > > > Is anyone else having problems with Netscape? It keeps dying with a > > > > 'bus error'... Nothing else on the system appears to be suffering, just > > > > Netscape... > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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