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Re: netsacape running wild



On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:28:40AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 01:52:10PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > I just left my machine with some open navigator 4.76 windows. When I came
> > back 3 hours later the machine was swapping like crazy. I checked what was
> > going on and found that netscape with four open windows took 120MB memory
> > which seems ridiculous high.
> > 
> > Anyone else experiencing the same?
> > 
> yes and i am very upset of this crap. netscape is big, slow and crashes
> too often. still i don't see iother every-day-runnable alternatives. sob...

w3m is really quite good, if you don't mind not having images.

Also, I've had better luck with Navigator 3.  It seems to be more
stable, though some people say that it's even worse than Navigator 4.
I guess it just depends on the machine...

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