"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote:
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> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Pearson wrote:
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> > I've had Netscape crash on me while JavaScript was enabled, but otherwise
> > it's been just fine *until* yesterday, when it crashed (occasionally and
> > unreproducibly, using version 4.5) several times while loading pages from
> > http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ with Java & JavaScript disabled, so
> > presumably bad HTML can still break it from time to time.
> >
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> Weird, because I've been viewing the same pages in navigator 4.6
> (everything on) for a couple days, with no stability problems. There
> isn't any unusual HTML there, either, as far as I can tell.
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> This is a perfect example of why bloatware is bad. Nobody will ever be
> able to debug this. There's just too much stuff going on to be able to
> track down exactly why it's crashing...
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> noah
When you consider that NS is statically linked to Motif, its not
so obvious that NS is bloatware. With NS Communicator, in
addition to static linking to Motif, its a browser + email program
+ newsgroup reader all in one.
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Ed C.
