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To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Netscape crashes/ how about Mozilla?
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Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> 
> 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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Along these lines, what's the current opinion on Mozilla?  The last time
I installed a version, it didn't have Mail and News.  It did have a neat
feature for not loading in ads that came from another url.  Rob.


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