Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> > Well, let's be fair. What they said was MSIE was more stable on
> > Windows. And, since one of the things at issue is MS's refusal to share
> > .dll specs and other crucial machine-level data with the market, this
> > seems somewhat expectable.
>
> Is that the reason why NS4x is unstable on Win, when you get right down to
> it? Is that what the NS engineers say? If so, I guess there's only so much
> we can expect from NS, eh...."it's not their fault - MS wins again". BTW,
> NS3 was quite stable on Win, but I saw it crash Macs many-a-time. And I
> think NS2 crashed Macs even more.
>
> And what is the real reason that NS4.0x sucks up Win resources and doesn't
> release them?
Only reason, I don't know. A reason, yes.
I installed NS4.5 Navigator only in Win 95 for three systems, not one of
them has locked up in the slightest, even under unexpected java loads,
since I removed the rest of the suite. Maybe 3 months since I did it,
one system gets rebooted at best 3 times a week.
If I put it on a system with Homesite, though, it's a different story.
HS3 sucks a lot of resources and will, in my experience, bring down NS
when they play together too long without a reboot. Thus, might wanna
check what other applications are running, what their histories with RAM
consumption/system resources are, and if potential problems are spotted,
start the resource hogs *after* everything else has staked it's claim to
system resources. I find that approach works about half the time.
On the other hand, MSIE 4 locks up as many times as NS 4 for me on the
systems at work (with no suite to begin with), if not more . . . so part
of it might be windows itself and the way it handles connections,
TCP/IP, browser rendering, etc. I do know that I haven't yet had NS for
Linux so much as blip, let alone crash, since I installed it . . . and
it runs on a box with 16 meg of RAM for weeks at a time (4 so far
without a reboot), so we can certainly *expect* a lot more from the
performance on the windows versions, on all fronts . . ..
As far as the Mac version, I dunno.
Brett
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