RE: Stable GUI Web Browser
Odd, I use NS every day (I work for an ISP). Occasional glitches, but nothing
like that. My netscape is sometimes ope for three days straight. I am using
4.5 currently.
Javascript only exists in netscape (or mozilla I think).
On 16-Nov-98 David Warnock wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone/everyone have problems with Netscape communicator? I have had
> the
> same problem with 4.06, 4.07, 4.08 and the latest beta of 4.5
>
> After I have been browsing for a while it just suddenly crashes - no error
> message (well in the beta I get a talkback thing to report the error - but it
> tells me nothing).
>
> Alternatively it will suddenly goto 99.x processor utilization and freeze -
> at
> this point I cannot even kill it. When I kill the task it is still running at
> 99.x processor according to top. Naturally as this is not windows my machine
> is
> still perfectly usable.
>
> So
>
> Q1 is there a more stable GUI Browser than Netscape for linux. I need
> javascript support but not java.
>
> Q2 is there anything to make netscape less prone to crashing? I have stopped
> using messager - would I be best moving to plain navigator instead of
> communicator?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>
> PS I am pretty uptodate with Debian 2.0 - did an upgrade using apt last week.
> But I have not upgraded by X 11 for a couple of months (it is one of the suse
> servers as I have a Permedia video card).
>
>
> David Warnock
> Sundayta Ltd
>
>
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