From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 26 17:58:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448DC14FA6 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 17:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA23359; Wed, 26 May 1999 19:57:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 19:57:57 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Note on my experience with Netscape 4.6 Message-ID: <19990526195756.D6251@futuresouth.com> References: <199905270030.TAA08669@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199905270030.TAA08669@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:30:00PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:30:00PM -0500, a little birdie told me that John S. Dyson remarked > Gang, > Didn't know where to post this, so just thought > that I'd tell you that if you are running the > Linux version of 4.6, give the FreeBSD version a > try if you can. It really seems LOTS faster on > startup, and might even be faster in general for > some reason. FYI, I use the FreeBSD version, and while Netscrape has never been a model of stability (under 2.2), now with 4.[56] under -CURRENT it routinely crashes out (sig10 usually) maybe every 3, 4 days, and I have a page or two around I can induce a crash at any time with. Doesn't hurt my X server or anything, just... well: May 25 17:05:54 mortis /kernel: pid 86922 (communicator-4.5), uid 100: exited on signal 10 May 25 17:07:39 mortis /kernel: pid 64577 (communicator-4.5), uid 100: exited on signal 10 May 25 17:08:16 mortis /kernel: pid 64590 (communicator-4.5), uid 100: exited on signal 10 May 25 17:08:47 mortis /kernel: pid 64598 (communicator-4.5), uid 100: exited on signal 10 May 25 23:48:51 mortis /kernel: pid 68661 (communicator-4.6), uid 100: exited on signal 10 That was when I was testing it repeatedly on one page; it really is 4.6 even when it says 4.5, the binary was named wrong. 4.5 on -CURRENT DID seem to be ever so slightly less stable than 4.6, so I guess it's an improvement, but... How about a web browser that DOESN'T crash out on me? Mosaic doesn't have a 'stop' button/function that I've been able to get to work, so that's kinda out... -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller MF4839 http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message