On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
>> I routinely open a terminal, issue "netscape &", and then close the
>> terminal, without problems.
>
> You must be using some alien version of netscape then...
*shrug*
Every version of Netscape under Linux I've used, from 3.x to 4.73, has
worked this way. I believe it also worked this way under Digital UNIX and SGI
IRIX, although it has been a while since I've used either.
As Kevin Clark points out, it may have more to do with the shell you are
using and its job control facilities then Netscape itself.
> I typically do this by accident only to find that netscape goes off to
> another plane of existence, and can be killed only by a SIGKILL.
Netscape does that all by itself, regardless of how you start it. ;-)
Incidentally, I find that by using Netscape Navigator (not Communicator,
just the stand-alone web browser Navigator), and turning off Java (not
JavaScript, just Java), I get a huge increase in stability. It goes from
repeated daily crashes to only crashing once or twice a week.
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