Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-27 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I use communicator 4.5 here with the latest glibc from unstable. It's a multi-user machine. It very often goes into an infinite loop eating all possible cpu. The only way to control netscrape is to set a time limit of 3min on it...

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
I'll give you credit for chasing this thing! I've got only one further contribution: On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 23:40, Daniel Barclay wrote: [snip!] > Oh yeah, another thing: In non-Java 90% CPU mode, I could quit, > but the netscape process would keep running, using 90% CPU. > I didn't seem to be

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... > > Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other > > than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): ... > > D

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote: > It crashes Netscape (Navigator) on my machine. There's nothing to > protect. Everybody knows netscape sucks for now. > However, fact is fact. Haven't had netscape trouble under Linux yet (I don't use it much), but on an IRIX 6.4 system it dumps core the insta

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread jack
> > > Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other > > > than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): > > > > > > On any Unix (X11) version of Communicator: > > Alas, I use only Navigator, not the whole Communicator package. > > > - - open the boo

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:13:01AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I use Communicator, not just Navigator; perhaps that's the clue. > The test that Daniel suggested crashed my Netscape. I've tried > running with and without Java/Javascript. I can expect Netscape > to crash at least once every time I sit

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Kent West
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. > > > > Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. > > > > Do you (and others): > > - - have Java enabled? > Yup. > > - - have Jav

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: [[[snip]]] > > - - open a lot of windows using "open in new window" (middle mouse button)? > Nope. > [[[snip]]] > > How many Netscape windows is it useful to have o

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: > You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. > > Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. > > Do you (and others): > - - have Java enabled? Yup. > - - have Javascript enabled? Yup. > - - typically

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0 > > systems. I know. I suffer from it every day. > > I hate to rain on your parade, but LOTS of people run Netscape 4

Correction: Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:17:00PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing > the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any > account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r > /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinst

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Kent West
Brad wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >if you are running a system > > > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >if you are running a system > > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with > > > net

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall your bookmarks.html. Maybe that will help. I run Netscape 4.7 (in

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread John
Hmmm, it still cant browse a download dir without losing the downloads name seem to suffer from memory loss , forgets the default download dir and sometimes a news server dissapears from the list only to reappear on subsequent openings. Fo

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >if you are running a system > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with > > netscape. > > No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0