Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)
Brad wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote:
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> > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote:
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> > > > From: Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>
> > > >if you are running a system
> > > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with
> > > > netscape.
> > >
> > > No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0
> > > systems. I know. I suffer from it every day.
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> > I hate to rain on your parade, but LOTS of people run Netscape 4.5 and
> > 4.6 with libc 2.0 systems without difficulty. In my last job I had 20+
> > users doing so, and many of them were HEAVY users of Netscape.
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> Then there's people who seem to have Netscape working fine under glibc 2.1
> (i'm not one of them, but i've heard so somewhere). That doesn't mean
> there isn't a problem somewhere, just that you haven't encountered it on
> your boxen.
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> > 6:45pm up 33 days, 2:18, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
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> What's your machine's uptime have to do with Netscape?
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> > Obviously, YMMV
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> Exactly!
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Indeed; it does seem to be that mileage varies between different
users. I started with 4.6, and am now at 4.7. In both versions, I
can expect Netscape to fairly consistently close every other time
I open Netscape Navigator and then Netscape Messenger and put in
my password. As soon as I enter my password, *boom*, Netscape
closes. I fire it back up and repeat the sequence and life is
good. After my session, I shut down Netscape (to free RAM and to
prevent Netscape memory leaks), and the next time I repeat the
process, I can expect the same results.
Of course Netscape also closes whenever I hit a web site with
badly configured Java.
This has lead me to conclude that Netscape on Linux is
consistently flakey. Of course, as mentioned, your mileage may
vary.
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