From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 10 20:08:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04471 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA04465 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA03559; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:12:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:12:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Brian Tao cc: Wolfgang Helbig , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.02b7 hangs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Brian Tao wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > > > > Note: If netscape hangs on startup eating all CPU time, find > > user_pref("browser.startup.license_accepted", ...); line in your > > ~/.netscape/preferences.js and move it to the end of the file or > > remove it, if previous not helps. > > Ah, I didn't download the port, just the tar file from Netscape. > Moving the user_pref line to the end does not help, but removing it > does. The preferences.js file is mode 444 now, with the side-effect > that the license agreement window comes up every time now, but at > least it runs. Does simply moving the line to the end work for other > people? *sigh* > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" > > hmmm.... That's odd. I'm using the same version with FreeBSD 2.2-970713-RELENG #0 and have never had this problem. Initially (right after installation) I did notice that it took a while to start up, but I just waited and ignored the problem. Now, Netscape starts up fine with no delays or problems. No changes were made and I did not even use the port at FreeBSD -- just the tar ball straight from Netscape.