That frood Michael O'Donnell sassed:
> I'm currently using 4.76 but every version I've ever used
> (going back as far as 2.x) has been similarly fragile. I
> normally have multiple browser windows open at a time, with
> several pairs positioned in their own ctwm workspaces; Java
There was a bug caused by missing fonts in the X font server path as
configured on the default RH6.1 distribution. They released an update
RPM (for Netscape, strangely) which fixed the font server config so
that certain Java and Javascript-based websites would no longer
trigger this bug.
If you didn't install that particular update, you may still have your
font server misconfigured, which will certainly increase the amount of
times Netscape will crash. On the other hand, it is known to leak
memory like the government leaks money, so that may or may not fix
your problem. You should be able to find the resolution to this bug
by doing a search on RedHat's bugzilla site for Netscape and Java. It
envolved adding a path to your font server's font path.
Alternatives to Netscape 4.7x include Mozilla, Netscape 6, and Galeon
(http://galeon.sourceforge.net) which are all based on Netscape, but
much better (or at least promise to be when they're finished). Galeon
is based on the new Mozilla rendering engine, requiring the M18
milestone for installation, but has a GTK interface. These programs
are all beta (AFAIK) but are coming right along.
Then there is lynx, Opera (http://www.operasoftware.com), and don't
forget Mosaic! :) Opera is supposed to be a small, fast,
multi-platform browser, and it was 2 years ago when I tried the
Windows version, but I haven't used it recently, nor have I tried the
Linux version. None of these have all the features of Netscape,
though Opera probably comes the closest. Gnome and KDE also have
their own browsers, which I have used a little but neither seemed to
really do the job (this was a while ago -- they may be better now, esp.
with KDE 2.0 out now).
The bottom line is there isn't a good browser that has all the
features that Netscape or IE have which runs on Linux, so you're
probably going to be stuck with Netscape, unless you want to write
your own, or wait for the next gen Netscape-based browsers.
The W3C has/had its own reference implementation of a browser, but I
can't recall what it was called, and I don't know how good it is.
Last time I used it, it was very UI-challenged and un-featureful
(though it did implement all of the features of HTML 4.0 at that
time).
--
We sometimes catch a window, a glimpse of what's beyond
Was it just imagination stringing us along?
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