Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:43:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Janet Sullivan <eliyanah@techie.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape crashes Message-ID: <20000925134325.D3948@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <39CE37F9.DBAB022F@glue.umd.edu>; from bfoz@glue.umd.edu on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 01:20:57PM -0400 References: <39CE24C3.7206533A@techie.com> <39CE2FCC.F9D7F849@wiegand.org> <39CE36D9.53B4AFBA@techie.com> <39CE37F9.DBAB022F@glue.umd.edu>
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On Sunday, 24 September 2000 at 13:20:57 -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Janet Sullivan wrote: >> Chip wrote: >>>> Any suggestions as to how I can make Netscape more stable on FreeBSD? >>>> Right now I'm running it off the RedHat box and displaying it to my >>>> FreeBSD X display, but this isn't an ideal solution. >> >>> Turn off javascript and java in the preferences. It has helped >>> immensely on mine. I've seen this mentioned numerous times in the >>> past. >> >> What if you need to run JAVA applets? Is there an alternative? >> >> Is this a problem with Netscape or FreeBSD? I ask because the >> 4.75-Linux version that crashes on FreeBSD is out of the same tarball as >> the version running on RedHat 6.2 that hasn't crashed once. > > Its definately a Netscape problem. Random crashes have been with > Netscape for so long that if someone fixed it, it wouldn't be Netscape > anymore. Its almost a tradition now. :) That's conventional wisdom, anyway. But I'm wondering if it's correct. I've had more problems running Netscape under FreeBSD than I have under Microsoft. There's a good chance that it's because I do more things with Netscape under FreeBSD (like opening many large windows), whereas I only ever run Microsoft for comparisons. But the program is so unbelievably buggy that I wonder if it's not tickling problems in the system that we can't tickle in any other way. If anybody has any evidence of this, I'd be very interested to see it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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