When you select the icon fo NS Communicator, using the GET INFO from the
FILE Menu, what does it have as allocated memory? I have upped my
allocation to about double the recommended.
NS 4.05 read my 120k bookmark file with no problems.
When you deleted did you also remove the Netscape folder from the
Preferences??
On some of the earlier systems, virtual memory was a problem as it
would allocate double the amount of installed RAM. You needed to
manually set virtual memory and cache memory through the Memory Control
Panel. VM should be 1 meg more than installed RAM and cache should be
32k per meg of RAM.
MS IE 3 for Mac was also a fairly good product. The main drawback was
it would not handle forms pages. Hence, Netscape won the starting spot
as I could download it without having to go through a forms based
registration process that IE 3 couldn't handle.
Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>
> I thought I would detail the various problems I'm having with Communicator
> 4.05 on my Mac (UMAX 266MHz G3 system). Let me count the ways...
>
> - while using it, it can give me a "bus error" and forces a system restart
> (often)
>
> - it just locks up for no particular reason, freezes.
>
> - it will not properly read my old bookmarks.html file from Communicator on
> my PC. This is really wierd: it's about a 250Kb file of bookmarks, but when
> I copy it to the Mac and open it in Mac Communicator, partway through the
> list of bookmarks they suddenly 'gray out', are not available. I've
> examined the html in the file and find huge gaps, hundreds and hundreds of
> blank lines, but they do not coincide with where the 'gray out' starts. Go
> figure).
>
> - I also find Communicator to be slower than IE in downloading pages and in
> loading pages from my hard drive, so slow it's sometimes painful. A web
> page on my hard drive that is, say, 40Kb total size (images and HTML) can
> take up to 10 seconds to display (I emphasize I'm talking about loading a
> local page!). In IE it's just a few seconds. And I'm running a very fast
> Mac. There is no excuse for Communicator to be so slow.
>
> I've deleted and reinstalled Communicator and still have the same problems.
>
> I downloaded MS IE v4.01 for the Mac, installed it, and it works fine. And
> interestingly, when I tell it to import the Communicator bookmarks file, it
> does so perfectly and reads every bookmark correctly.
>
> Apparently Suz is having the opposite experience from me <G>. Your mileage
> may vary. Any other comments?
>
> Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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