From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 00:27:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA06299 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA06294 Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA11245; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:27:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:27:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang To: Gary Palmer cc: Terry Lambert , mcs@vpm.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape's Atlas for FreeBSD Bombs In-Reply-To: <10757.829120023@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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