Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:52:40 -0500 | From | Ed Cogburn <> | Subject | Re: That whole Netscape problem... |
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doctor@fruitbat.org wrote: > > Ely Wilson said ... > > > > Netscape 4.x has been 'spontaneously shutting down' since as far as I can recall, on > > both Debian and RedHat, under 2.0 and 2.1 kernels. This is nothing kernel related, > > maybe indirectly if at all. This is a problem that should be taken up with Netscape > > (or whoever it is that manages the browser source code) since this has been a long > > standing problem among a great many users of all kernel versions. > > > > Maybe it uses a bad memory management scheme under Linux/Unix and it surfaces itself > > under Linux/X Windows. This is a posibility, but I wouldn't stick my neck out so > > far (on he lkml) and say it's kernel related, because tehre are MANY X apps that > > don't spontaneously close themselves. If it were a less centralized problem... > > well.. > > I find it interesting that many people have this problem with Netscape. > I've been running 4.51 for around 4 months (under 2.0.x) and never had it > hang or die. With previous releases of Netscape there was some
First, where did you get the 4.51 version? I couldn't find it on ftp.netscape.com for linux. 4.5 is the only binary available for linux boxes. Second, how do you use NS? 80% browsing, or 80% email/newsgroups? Do you use multiple browser windows, or just one? From other discussions on other mailing lists, its *how* you use NS that has a lot to do with its stability.
> instability, but usually I just upgrade my libc and it settled down. > When Netscape was developed (as with most products) a certain environment > was used, ie: certain level of the kernel, libc, binutils, etc. Perhaps > Netscape should published the exact environment the product was built and > tested under as a way for people to figure out how their environment > differs. > Making a blanket statement that 'product XYZ will work with a 2.0 > kernel' will almost always be false on someones system. And usually it's > environmental. > > -- > Peter A. Castro (doctor@fruitbat.org) or (pcastro@us.oracle.com)
-- Ed C.
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