Glad you mentioned the problem with Homesite. I have been using an early
version of NS4 without much trouble, but since I've installed NS 4.5, I've
had an absolutely miserable time - particularly in connection with Homesite
and Dreamweaver.
I find that it does make a difference if I also have Word and Photoshop
open. I'll try loading Homesite after the other programs.
Cordially, Mary McWilliams Johnson
McJohnson Communications
Documentation / Web Site Design, Development and Graphics
www.superconnect.com
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At 01:05 PM 10/29/98 -0500, Brett Lorenzen wrote:
>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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