On 3 Dec 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making > all open netscape windows unuseable. This is on an i686, mostly > potato. Any patches/workarounds for this sort of problem? -chris
Hm, I have problems with netscape misbehaving, but it's not so particular--there aren't particular pages I know of that are guaranteed to make it hang. Mainly I've noticed that it has memory leaks. What works for me is I keep a memory monitor going (I run gnome, and have the memory/swap load monitors on the panel), and keep an eye out for creeping memory use. When I notice the memory use creeping up as I browse, I'll kill netscape and restart it before it puts Linux into full-time swapping hell. Turning off javascript and java might help too. Netscape can be a pain that way, though. Its the one program on my system that hangs fairly regularly. I feel your pain....--Bruce Fields
