Re: netscape4.x cannot read debian-user list archives
On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
> Jan Krupa wrote:
> > I have installed netscape4.5b2 under debian2.0.
> > When I try to read debian-user mailing list archives
> > (e.g. from September, august) first
> > time it's O.K. but next times on the same month archives
> > netscape just hangs I have to kill it (the archives are very big).
> >
> > When I try to read much smaller archives (e.g. debian-changes,
> > September) it's all right.
> >
> > I had the same behavior using netscape4.x, but netscape3.x
> > reads the archives well.
> >
> > Does anybody have any idea what causes such behavior of netscape ?
> > May be I have configured netscape wrong.
> > My be I some hint what change in preferences?
>
> I think this is a cache related bug, as turning off the (disk) cache in
> Netscape will prevent this from happening (at least for me).
>
> Another workaround is to follow links from the main article index using
> the middle mouse button. This will tell Netscape to open the link in a
> new window so that you never have to reload the index from cache in the
> first window.
Unfortunely that way works only first time, I mean when I exit
netscape and then after some time I start it again I cannot
read the debian-user archives (e.g. September) even one time:
netscape hangs again and I have to kill it.
> YMMV.
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Jan
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