Messages in this thread | | | From | doctor@fruitbat ... | Subject | Re: That whole Netscape problem... | Date | Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:27:24 -0800 (PST) |
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Ed Cogburn said ... > 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.
My mistake. It's 4.5, not 4.51 (sorry for the misinformation).
> 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.
Lets see... I typically have two or three windows open, one or two for browsing, one for news (though lately I've been going back to using Tin). I don't read my mail through netscape. I use elm. I'm not impressed with any of the graphic mail readers available, let alone Netscape mail reader. The same argument applies to news readers, so I guess recently it's only been browsing. But in the past it's been all three. As for the types of pages, I visit, they vary from straight HTML (text only) to sites heavy on the java. It's a pretty good mix. My disk and memory caches are 5Mb each, and I know I exceed that limit at least once a day.
-- Peter A. Castro (doctor@fruitbat.org) or (pcastro@us.oracle.com)
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