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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, mcs@vpm.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape's Atlas for FreeBSD Bombs 
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.91.960410002635.24231q-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <10757.829120023@palmer.demon.co.uk>

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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:

> Richard Chang wrote in message ID
> > 	One thing very interesting is with both Netscape 2.0 and Netscape 3.0
> > for BSDI is that it will only crash if you let it load the default homepage.
> > If I hit the open button and then clicked on stop, everything will be 
> > fine.  I can even open the default homepage manually bu typing the 
> > address in and it will work but clicking home will crash it.
> 
> I've seen netscape 3.0b2 core dump (on a pentium) with pages other
> than Netscapes. I >>THINK<< it's a Java/Javascript problem, as the
> pages had java on them, and loaded fine when I turned off Java in the
> security console. Anyone tried that with netscapes page?

	You are right but the thing is that it does the floating point 
exception on the Netscape 2.0 release that didn't support Java yet.... It 
worked well with other pages with java but not Netscapes, wonder why...

Richard




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