Re: Netscape memory leak in debian?

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: Netscape memory leak in debian?
	Date: Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:05:41PM +1000

In reply to:Steve Kieu

Quoting Steve Kieu(haiquy@yahoo.com):
> Hi, every one.
> 
> Has ony one noticed that when you exit Communicator
> 4.77 if you select File / Exit; then go to the console
> type top
> 
> There are still two or at least one communicator
> process running, takes up a lot of memory and does
> nothing!. I have to kill it with signal 9. It is a
> rule I bet that at least on my machine :-). But If you
> select File / Close and close untill the last netscape
> windows it doesn't usually happen like that.
> I got communicator installed from netscape and suspect
> that it may not be compatible, then I delete that and
> use apt-get to install from security.debian.org site;
> it is the same.
> 
> I can not remember if it happened when I ran Netscape
> 4.77 in Slack (I got that before) but may be not. I
> not sure this is debian specific or netscape itself ?
> 
> what could cause it? how to fix it? any ideas pls ?

Install Navigator and remove Communicator.  It doesn't have that
problem here.
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