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From: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.snybuf.edu>
To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
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Subject: Re: Anyone noticed the new FreeBSD Netscape looping?
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It seems to work fine on my system, even with 3 or 4 open. The graphics
look a lot better on my crappy old VGA than with Netscape 3.1.
I'm running it on 2.2-970801-RELENG, AMD 486 133, 32meg, 2 meg video.

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote:

> > 	I've noticed that the new FreeBSD-specific Netscape 4.02b<whatever>
> > seems to have a tendency to go into a hard loop upon trying to exit.
> > Occasionally it does it when starting.
> > 
> > 	I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE on a machine with 16Mb of
> > memory, and I'm here to tell you that this puppy page-thrashes, especially
> > when you try using the newsreader section.  The solution to that is,
> > "Buy more memory," or, alternatively, "Run a Web browser that's not such
> > a pig."
> > 
> > 	However, this looping behavior is worrisome because it doesn't
> > happen every time, just 2/3 of the time.  This Is Not Good.
> 
> Ive been running it for the last few days and have had zero problems. It
> hasnt crashed once, and everything appears to work, include Java. I was
> never able to get any of the BSDI version to work with Java, but the one
> for FreeBSD worked out of the box using the Netscape installer. This
> version of Netscape seems a LOT faster than any other version of Netscape
> I have used in FreeBSD.
> 
> 
>