Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-24 Thread Alex Varju
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Alexander Leidinger wrote: But this didn't solve the crash at exit. But... rm -rf /usr/lib/compat/* cd /usr/src/lib/compat/compat22/ make all install clean cd ../compat3x.i386/ make all install clean solved this for me (YMMV). After doing this, I noticed

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23-Feb-00 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: Well, Alexander Leidinger's suggestion of disabling Javascript seems to help. I disabled both JavaScript and Style Sheets (in the "advanced" preferences menu) and in relatively limited testing, Slashdot didn't crash Netscape for me. If you login to

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-23 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:16:00AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: I can give you the .mozconfig file I used to successfully build Mozilla on -current. Patches to make the port compile on Current? :-) -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-23 Thread Donn Miller
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:16:00AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: I can give you the .mozconfig file I used to successfully build Mozilla on -current. Patches to make the port compile on Current? :-) Well, I've been checking out the source code to

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 22 Feb, Steve Hocking wrote: There was some discussion of this over on the XFree mailing lists, and it transpired that netscape was using a pointer to some memory that had been freed some time back. This showed up in cases where you open up a stack of windows and then close them at

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Martin Cracauer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Le Heux wrote: Hi, Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on Netscape? This made a real difference in stability for me: Before installing a new Netscape, rm -rf /usr/local/lib/netscape rm -rf /home/*/.netscape Seriously, when I had old

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Donn Miller
Martin Cracauer wrote: BTW, does anyone know if its possible to write a plugin for the BSDI version of Navigator 3.04 so that it display *.png files as it displays *.gif files now? As I understand, a plugin doesn't have fine enough access to the display code to do this, right? You could

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Alex
I will try this and see if it helps. Cheers, Alex On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 06:56:41PM -0500, Bryan Liesner wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Alex Le Heux wrote: Hi, Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on Netscape? It's been going on for quite some time now

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Steve Hocking
There was some discussion of this over on the XFree mailing lists, and it transpired that netscape was using a pointer to some memory that had been freed some time back. This showed up in cases where you open up a stack of windows and then close them at random. There was a patch to work around

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 23:42:56 -0800, William R. Somsky wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:09:16PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:50:46 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which causes it to

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Will Saxon
You arent the only one, I have tried nestcape 4.08 and 4.7 navigator and both exit on signal 10 and coredump quite often. It happens in the middle of page rendering and also everytime I try to close the application (rare since I hardly ever get the chance to do that myself). I dont know why it

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
You may want to try upgrading your linux libraries... they may be old... I don't have these problems though... Netscape rarely crashes for me. = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around.| | Unix Systems

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which causes it to crash right away- see the installation instructions that come out when you install communicator-47- it said something about mkfontdir. It still crashes or wedges for me a lot, though. I tried mozilla, and

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Bryan Liesner
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Alex Le Heux wrote: Hi, Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on Netscape? It's been going on for quite some time now (months), upgrading Netscape or switching from the Linux to the FreeBSD to the BSDI version doesn't help. The most stable

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Don Lewis
On Feb 21, 7:51pm, Alex Le Heux wrote: } Subject: Crashing netscape? } Hi, } } Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on } Netscape? } } It's been going on for quite some time now (months), upgrading Netscape or } switching from the Linux to the FreeBSD to the BSDI

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Steve Coltrin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bryan Liesner writes: Netscape would always crash on me when loading a java applet - I found that if you define both the scaled and unscaled fonts in XF86Config as below that all the java related crashes go away. Section "Files" RgbPath

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Mike Nowlin
You may want to try upgrading your linux libraries... they may be old... I don't have these problems though... Netscape rarely crashes for me. Me and one of my friends got really sick of this problem one weekend a few months ago (under Linux), and decided to figure out what was blowing up...