From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 10:21: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nbf-27.umd.edu (nbf-27.umd.edu [128.8.38.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F41737B422 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from glue.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nbf-27.umd.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8OHKvv01593; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 13:20:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Message-ID: <39CE37F9.DBAB022F@glue.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 13:20:57 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Janet Sullivan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape crashes References: <39CE24C3.7206533A@techie.com> <39CE2FCC.F9D7F849@wiegand.org> <39CE36D9.53B4AFBA@techie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message