Re: [expert] Netscape issue, redux
Opera is quite obviously pre-alpha -- a promise delivered and little else. I've downgraded to Netscape 4.51, and so far, I've not had the problem. Of course, it's only been a few minutes ;-). -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: No the beta version of Opera is awful. The last stable version of Netscape seems to be 4.08 IMHO Yes, I've seen that problem too. I've read that Netscape 4.51 - 4.61 introduced more bugs than it fixed. You might try going back to 4.51 and see if it still occurs. Also the beta version of opera is out -- if the html is fairly simple, it might work better.
[expert] Netscape issue, redux
Has anyone come with a solution to the problem of Netscape often exiting altogether when one of its windows are closed? It's been often discussed in this list, but, in scouring the archives, I have found nothing other than that it is likely rooted in libc/glibc2/glibc2.1 incompatibilities. It's a real pain for me because my students' grade database is online, and editing requires having multiple pages open. I thought the problem went away when I updated netscape and netscape-common from cooker just before it became oxygen, but apparently it just randomly stopped for a while. This has been going on since I installed Venus (don't remember what netscape version is on the CD), and continues through netscape-communicator-4.70-4mdk. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax)
Re: [expert] Netscape issue, redux
Barry Marler wrote: Has anyone come with a solution to the problem of Netscape often exiting altogether when one of its windows are closed? It's been often discussed in this list, but, in scouring the archives, I have found nothing other than that it is likely rooted in libc/glibc2/glibc2.1 incompatibilities. It's a real pain for me because my students' grade database is online, and editing requires having multiple pages open. I thought the problem went away when I updated netscape and netscape-common from cooker just before it became oxygen, but apparently it just randomly stopped for a while. This has been going on since I installed Venus (don't remember what netscape version is on the CD), and continues through netscape-communicator-4.70-4mdk. /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) Yes, I've seen that problem too. I've read that Netscape 4.51 - 4.61 introduced more bugs than it fixed. You might try going back to 4.51 and see if it still occurs. Also the beta version of opera is out -- if the html is fairly simple, it might work better. Cheers, Jon
Re: [expert] Netscape issue, redux
Jeanette Russo wrote: No the beta version of Opera is awful. The last stable version of Netscape seems to be 4.08 IMHO Jeanette Netscape stability seems to be linked to a lot of other factors, probably X itself and your window manager. Everyone thinks there's a more stable version than the one they have, but no one agrees which one it is :-) My Netscape crashes mostly went away (knock on plastic) after removing all the chipset specific optimizations in my XF86Config. X is still snappy and responsive, redraws take a little longer, but Netscape and X don't kill each other anymore. Jack -- Linux: because you can't do a sig like this in Windows. 7:02pm up 24 days, 1:45, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.21, 0.57
