I have been using NS 4.5 since Beta 1 on an NT machine. Once or twice
a week it will die a graceful death with a Dr. Watson error window
popping up. On a Win95 that would probably equate to a blue screen of
death. So, protected memory does work under NT. IMHO, NS 4.05 was the
last stable version.
For Jack's observation, Java is a weak point under Netscape. MSIE does
have a better (or faster) Java engine than Netscape. I have found that
doing a pre-load of Java from a page prior to when my Java applets
reside speeds the initial load. However, that doesn't help if the Java
applet is somewhere in the hinterlands of the Internet.
I believe the 4.5 Beta did have a memory leak problem. The final
version seems more stable than the beta. One thing I noted when
skimming through some release notes was a caveat to remove previous
versions of NS prior to loading NS 4.5. As the machine I am currently
using is new, it did not have a previous version so I don't know if that
is an important issue.
Right now, NS 4.5 and MSIE 4.01 are installed on my system. The most
serious problem I have experienced is related to fonts in NS 4.5. For
some unknown reason, my Arial and New Times Roman fonts appeared as if
they were corrupted; but only with Netscape. No other app was impacted.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 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. I will
> often use Composer for laying out basic tables, background colors, and fonts,
> but I've finally given up and ordered Dreamweaver. 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).
>
> Linda Wishman
> TLW Enterprises
> http://www.win.bright.net/~twishman
> (webpenguin.com still isn't up)
>
> In a message dated 10/28/98 11:12:30 PM Central Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > spew>
> > I'd really like to like NS4x, but it consistently portrays itself as a
> piece
> > of shit on NT. Uses up system resources (must have a memory leak) and
> > crashes whenever the dreaded "Starting Java" appears in the status bar. I
> > give it a chance, over and over, but hey...only so much attention I can
> give
> > it.
> > </rant>
> >
> > time to ctr-alt-del...at least on NT you can just kill the errant app. I
> > remember it on Win95 and all the lovely reboots I used to do...after
> > watching system resources deplete.
> >
> > I dl'd v4.5 today and will give that a chance, too...and hey, what ever
> > happened to that enlightened "release the source code", v5 concept?
> Anything
> > going on there?
> >
> > Jack
> >
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