Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 01:43:55 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: chad@anasazi.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape native version Message-ID: <19970808014355.44693@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <9708080506.AA27349@chad.anasazi.com>; from Chad R. Larson on Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 10:06:37PM -0700 References: <21563.863844380@time.cdrom.com> <9708080506.AA27349@chad.anasazi.com>
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On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 10:06:37PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Jordan recently sent e-mail announcing that Netscape has a native > implementation of Navigator. > > Actually, it was of Communicator. And, perhaps he should have mentioned > it needs to run under 2.2 as it was linked dynamically and has VD > (Version Discrepency) on the g++, c and stdc shared libraries. Anyone else notice that it often just refuses to die?? I'd say about 60% of the time for me, when I close it by selecting "Exit" from the menu, or close the window using the window manager, Netscape disapears from the screen, but a process list shows me it's still there, eating up 20MB or RAM and burning away my CPU. 'kill -9' is your friend.. Also, the java performance just seems HORRIBLE with the FReeBSD version.. Idon't know what they're doing, but for some reason the FreeBSD version runs about 1000% slower than the Linux version of Communicator (and the BSDI 3.0 series). Finally, Communicator locked up on me last night - actuallly it locked up and took out my system with it.. complete freeze. X was still "displaying", but the keyboard and mouse were dead. The machine wouldn't even answer pings... complete freeze. Needless to say, since I've been running FreeBSD (almost 2 years) this is the first time this has ever happened to me. Lock up. Not even a crash. Nothing is worse, and horrible images of win95 were filling my head. Solution: rm -rf /usr/local/netscape mount /cdrom pkg_add /cdrom/packages/All/slynx-2.7.tgz Communicator may have a pretty interface, but it's a behemouth, resource eating, system crashing, poor performing monster. Surely they can do better... -Mark > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? > 602-870-3330 chad@anasazi.com chad@anasaz.UUCP chad@dcfinc.com > Anasazi, Inc. - 7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120, Phoenix, Az 85020 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert
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