LInda Wishman wrote:
> I can't believe how unstable 4.x is on Win95. I would say that 4
> or 5 times a
> day it will give me the blue screen of death and have to be
> rebooted.
Just so we're clear here, the vaunted BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) is
generally considered an NT "feature"..heh. On Win9x I remember various
vagaries at crashtime, such as complete system freezes, reboots without
warning and GPF messages, but no BSOD's. Are you on NT or Win95?
BTW, I remember NS4.01,02,03 burning up system resources on Win95 rapidly,
especially when opening new browser windows. I thought for sure there was
some kind of obvious resource sucker in there that NS engineers would
quickly overcome, but that doesn't seem to be the case. NS3, OTOH, was very
solid and I used it for a long time. When I discovered that IE4 rendered
screen elements, particularly form elements, in a very similar way to N3, I
started using it and NS3 regularly. (IE3 renders form elements rather
funky...and differently in the AOL version, ack.)
Eventually, I loaded NS4, which I stopped using rather quickly. Since I
wanted to use a v4 browser, I started using IE4 more and more, using NS3
less and less...and I found that some of the features in IE4 were
handy...though I think Opera does some things better (and it's rendering is
getting better, too)...and SimulBrowse ( http://www.simulbrowse.com/ ) has a
convenient tabbed interface that I prefer over IE's (it uses the IE browser,
internally), but SimulBrowse freezes up too often, in my tests, and does not
have a viewable history function. I dl'd NS4.5 last night, but haven't tried
it yet.
> 4.5 didn't
> even help that
> much. It supposedly has a system to tell Netscape why it acts up
> -- well that
> feature won't work on this machine either (PII 266 64 RAM).
To "tell Netscape"? How? By sending a message via the net (er, from a
crashed browser)? Can you explain?
Jack
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