>> or just dies outright, and too often.
>
>How often is "too" often? I use Communicator almost exclusively
>for E-Mail (either that or the TWIG web-based mail program) and
>web browsing, and I probably get a crash (nothing spectacular,
>just the program going "poof" and disappearing) about twice
>a month. Annoying, but not too bad.
In principle, of course, even once is too often. But all
seriousness aside, I'd define "too often" as "often enough
that I spend measurable amounts of time irritated by (and
recovering from) the failures instead of getting useful
work done", which in turn begs a new definition... ;->
In more concrete terms: Netscape dies approx once a day
on average, with some bad days seeing multiple failures
while good days see none. This happens at work on a RH-
based system running 2.2.17 kernels and at home on two
different Debian-based systems running 2.0.29 and 2.2.17
My wife and I also run Netscape at home on an NT4.0
system and rarely see failures specifically attributable
to Netscape, though we also rarely have more than a couple
of windows open at a time.
The common threads among the failing sessions seem to be
- multiple browser windows open simultaneously
- Linux
- ctwm
>> Does anybody know of remedies for the problems I described?
>
>One question I'd have is whose binaries are you using? I run
>Debian, and a Debian maintainer packages up a custom version
>of Netscape, which is what I'm running. If you're Red Hat,
>I don't know if third-party binaries are available, or what
>the *.deb files would do when run through alien and installed,
>but it'd seem like it'd be worth a try.
I have never run any Netscape binaries but those I've downloaded
directly from *.netscape.com
>> Are there any other browsers out there that could seriously
>> be considered as alternatives to Netscape?
>
>I've found myself starting to use Mozilla more and more and
>am trying to convince myself to switch over to it completely.
>I love the fact that I can tell it to "reject all cookies
>(or graphics) from domain xxx.yyy". However, if stability is
>what you're looking for, Mozilla isn't ready for prime time yet.
I have high hopes for Mozilla; I even dream of hacking the
source such that I can set preferences on a per-window basis
rather than globally. I'm sorry to hear that it's not yet
stable enough for regular use...
>If you're in a KDE2 environment, Konqueror (sp?) is a browser
>that's pretty slick and is defintely worth looking at.
I don't use KDE, and understand few of the issues involved -
is it the case that certain apps are dependent on which window
manager one uses? That kinda sucks...
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