Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:46:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Taming Netscape Navigator? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203041940150.63339-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20020302044536.GA1321@raggedclown.net>
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: :On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:06:51PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: :> Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> types: :> > Can anyone share some experiences or advice on how to control netscape? :> > :Netscape is about 12 million lines of code, it is a gorilla. :There is no known platform on which it runs without dying on you..I :would say on my work Solaris system, which involves practically constant :use of Netscape googling and the repulsive Netscape mail it dies 1-2 a :day. It just disappears. I have an alias set for "rm ~/.netscape/lock". You don't need to do that. If netscape finds a lock file, it verifies that the process that initiated the lock is really there. If not, it ignores it. I know this because my oh so wonderful NS 4.77 on Irix usually disappears on me several times a day. If I get a warning about the lock, then the old process hasn't died and needs to be explicitly killed. I recently compiled Mozilla 0.98 with as much of the debugging removed as I could manage. That speeded things up alot, and it's more stable than NS 4.77. Hopefully once they get to release and you can build it completely free of the QA and debugging burdens currently belaboring the runtime binaries, it'll be only slightly less snappy than NS 4.77. The port of Mozilla 0.98 on 4.5-S isn't noticeably slower than NS 4.7x, but my laptop has a 1.13ghz proc, vs. dual R10000/200mhz in the SGI next to my desk. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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