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From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
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To: Janet Sullivan <eliyanah@techie.com>
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Subject: Re: Netscape crashes
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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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Janet
> eliyanah@techie.com
> 
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For my use I have yet to come across a java applet that I 'need'
to run. And it is a netscape problem, not a FBSD problem. In the
past when I used Linux Red Hat 5.2 and 6 I experienced the same
problems with it there, and even more so than in FreeBSD when I
do turn on javascript.
-- 
Chip W.	
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