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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 2000 13:20:57 -0400
From:      Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Janet Sullivan <eliyanah@techie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape crashes
Message-ID:  <39CE37F9.DBAB022F@glue.umd.edu>
References:  <39CE24C3.7206533A@techie.com> <39CE2FCC.F9D7F849@wiegand.org> <39CE36D9.53B4AFBA@techie.com>

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Janet Sullivan wrote:
> 
> Chip wrote:
> >
> 
> > > Any suggestions as to how I can make Netscape more stable on FreeBSD?
> > > Right now I'm running it off the RedHat box and displaying it to my
> > > FreeBSD X display, but this isn't an ideal solution.
> 
> > Turn off javascript and java in the preferences. It has helped
> > immensely on mine. I've seen this mentioned numerous times in the
> > past.
> 
> What if you need to run JAVA applets?  Is there an alternative?
> 
> Is this a problem with Netscape or FreeBSD?  I ask because the
> 4.75-Linux version that crashes on FreeBSD is out of the same tarball as
> the version running on RedHat 6.2 that hasn't crashed once.

Its definately a Netscape problem. Random crashes have been with
Netscape for so long that if someone fixed it, it wouldn't be Netscape
anymore. Its almost a tradition now. :)

-Brandon


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