Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): ... Does

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
I'll give you credit for chasing this thing! I've got only one further contribution: On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 23:40, Daniel Barclay wrote: [snip!] Oh yeah, another thing: In non-Java 90% CPU mode, I could quit, but the netscape process would keep running, using 90% CPU. I didn't seem to be

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-27 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I use communicator 4.5 here with the latest glibc from unstable. It's a multi-user machine. It very often goes into an infinite loop eating all possible cpu. The only way to control netscrape is to set a time limit of 3min on it...

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0 systems. I know. I suffer from it every day. I hate to rain on your parade, but LOTS of people run Netscape 4.5 and 4.6

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. Do you (and others): - - have Java enabled? Yup. - - have Javascript enabled? Yup. - - typically open

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: [[[snip]]] - - open a lot of windows using open in new window (middle mouse button)? Nope. [[[snip]]] How many Netscape windows is it useful to have open at

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Kent West
Pann McCuaig wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. Do you (and others): - - have Java enabled? Yup. - - have Javascript enabled?

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:13:01AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I use Communicator, not just Navigator; perhaps that's the clue. The test that Daniel suggested crashed my Netscape. I've tried running with and without Java/Javascript. I can expect Netscape to crash at least once every time I sit

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread jack
Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): On any Unix (X11) version of Communicator: Alas, I use only Navigator, not the whole Communicator package. - - open the bookmarks window

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote: It crashes Netscape (Navigator) on my machine. There's nothing to protect. Everybody knows netscape sucks for now. However, fact is fact. Haven't had netscape trouble under Linux yet (I don't use it much), but on an IRIX 6.4 system it dumps core the instant

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread John
Hmmm, it still cant browse a download dir without losing the downloads name seem to suffer from memory loss , forgets the default download dir and sometimes a news server dissapears from the list only to reappear on subsequent openings.

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall your bookmarks.html. Maybe that will help. I run Netscape 4.7 (in

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are running a system with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with netscape.

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Kent West
Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are running a system with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with

Correction: Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:17:00PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall