RE: Stable GUI Web Browser

[servis@purdue.edu]

I get the same behavior as David with Netscape 4.5 (it is out of beta
now).  The thing gets stuck and eats the cpu until I 'kill -9' it, it
appears to get hung on a dns lookup for some reason. I also usually have
to restart it at least once a day because it is taking a HUGE amount of
swap.  This morning I sat down in front of my machine and netscape was
consuming over 50M/128M of swap!!!!!!!!!!! This swap consumption
usually occurs after my backup has run overnight.

Brian

*- Shaleh wrote about "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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