Re: Which Netscape to use? / Thanks
On 18 Sep 2000, Holger Rauch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot! 475 got most favourable votes. It installs well (after I
> > realised that the tar file is no longer required ;-)) and seems to
> > perform stable.
>
> This depends to a large extent on what pages you want to view. In case
> they contain Java applets, forget all about stability in Netscape. I have
> not yet found a recent Java plugin for Linux that behaves stable. Also, I
> heard that Netscape tends to crash on certain JavaScript constructs.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Holger
>
>
I found this with the new Sainsbury store site, which was advertised
here with much fanfare; they said it worked with Netscape above 4.6, but
it doesn't.
Another bug is that if you exit Netscape with alt-q it often leaves the
lock file in place. I think it's OK if you exit from the menu but I'm
not sure.
Anthony
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