From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 10:31: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17C937B422 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 48196328C; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:54:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D064328B; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:54:57 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:54:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Janet Sullivan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape crashes In-Reply-To: <39CE24C3.7206533A@techie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems the Netscape for FreeBSD suffers (IMO) partially from the same problem it has on Microsoft Windows. I've found that manaully removing the cache or history file from your user's home directory seems to help a lot. Also, the BSDi version for me at least, seems to be a lot more stable. Rick On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Janet Sullivan wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.1-Stable and am having problems with Netscape > constantly crashing (but only Netscape). This has occured with FreeBSD > 4.0-Release, FreeBSD 4.1-Release, and now FreeBSD 4.1-Stable. I've > tried Netscape 4.75 for both Linux and FreeBSD, but they but randomly > die, especially when running JAVA applets. I tried the BSDi version of > Netscape 4.75 and it locked up my entire machine. I have this same > problem with Netscape 4.72 and 4.08. I don't have any other > applications that lock up, or that cause my machine to lock up. > > Meanwhile I have Netscape 4.75 running on a RedHat box and it hasn't > crashed yet. > > 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. > > Thanks, > > Janet > eliyanah@techie.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message