Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

[Pollywog <croak@shadypond.com>]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:04:05 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said:

>  > 
>  > Well, I installed it and it freaked out my WM.	A window kept coming
>  > up very rapidly, which read "Crash Recovery".
>  > I had to restart X to get rid of it.  I was dead in the water.
>  
>  Skipstone or Galeon?  IIRC, they both have crash recovery.
>  
>  I had the problem of the infinite restart a few months back, on one of
>  my systems, don't recall what the problem was.  May have been a stale
>  dot-directory -- both browsers are pretty picky about having old configs
>  lying around.  Was this an upgrade?

No, I had never used it before (Skipstone), so I tried it after it
was mentioned on this thread.

>  
>  Try deleting .skipstone or .galeon, as appropriate, and attempting to
>  start again.  If that doesn't work, try:
>  
>    $ strace $BROWSER
>  
>  (for appropriate value) and see if you can't work out where things get
>  funky.
I will try that.

>  
>  Note that while I *really* like the concepts, I find them less usable at
>  present than Netscape.
Exactly, it is the same with Opera.  I looks as though it will be
superior to Netscape, but it still has some features (like plugins)
missing.

--
Andrew