>I've not had that many problems with Netscape and Java.
Could it really just be me? I'm running pretty basic Netscape, about
the only change I made was running Fortify over the browser. Trivial
applets like
http://nelson.www.media.mit.edu/people/nelson/research/mas964/ps2/CircleRepetition.html
are killing it. Try it yourself - run the applet, click and hold in
the window and drag around awhile. (Enjoy the pretty circles). For me,
after about 15 seconds of this, Netscape locks up solid.
With the Redhat RPMs, it consumes 100% CPU and can't be killed except
with signal 9. The Mandrake RPMs at
ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub/linux/mandrake/6.0/Mandrake/RPMS/
are a bit better - it still locks up, but doesn't consume CPU and can
be killed with the normal signal.
The netscape wrapper script in the RedHat RPMs is quite complex, but
doesn't seem to be doing anything with LD_LIBRARY_PATH or the Java
environment. The one with Mandrake is much simpler, also doesn't set
anything that seems related.
It all feels to me like some bad instability between AWT and glibc2.1.
(The applet I've pointed you to is quite simple Java1.0 stuff. No
threads are spawned. It does a fair amount of work inside mouseDrag(),
but that's all.
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