Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 03:53:11 +0100 (CET) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Netscpae/Netscpae6 oddities Message-ID: <20020308034643.J8483-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Hello. I think nearly all FreeBSD users use the Linux binaries of Netscape Communicator 4.79 or Netscape6 or Opera 6. We also use both of them due to the fact there is no other reasonable alternatives especially those explicetely made for FreeBSD. The problem is that very often both Netscape types seems to crash X11 subsystem and freezing up the terminal and if there is no way to kill the locking process (as in a netwide environment in which no user has access to the terminal's console) the only way is to reboot the stuck terminal. Another bad phenomenon is that Netscape 4.79 does not end itself up when getting closed, so a kind of zombie process is eating up system performance. Netscape 6 tends to crash whenever a second window is opened by a on_close, then the process locks up in a weird condition and only a DESTROY, if possible, brings back the terminal. Are these problems well known and are there suitable solutions? The status quo is not a very professional solution for a low-administrativ profiled environment ... -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 (Buero) FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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