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Date:      Thu, 30 May 2002 16:51:09 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu>
To:        "Roger P. Johnson" <rjohnson@hirshfields.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does anyone use Netscape 6.x on FreeBSD that WORKS ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205301648390.20074-100000@cs.selu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3CF676C3.3030904@hirshfields.com>

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Try mozilla, its more up to date.  i have both flash and shockwave workign 
in freebsd, windows and linux, works great.  netscape 6.2 is based off 
mozilla code, with a few changes.  i just pulled down mozilla 1.0rc3 for 
freebsd 4.5 and it works great.  ftp.mozilla.org  hope this helps

Jason

> Long time user of both FreeBSD and Netscape browsers, like them both but 
> I am at a rope's end in getting the Netscape 6 Browser to work on 
> FreeBSD reliably.
> 
> Does anyone have the Flash pluging working? I have yet to see it work.
> 
> The Java Applets can lock up my browser. Have to kill it off. I then 
> have tons of java_vm processes I have to kill off. Thank goodness for 
> killall(1) command.
> 
> This is the Linux version, both Netscape 6.2 and Netscape 6.2.3 on 
> FreeBSD 4.1.
> 
> I would like to upgrade the users from 4.7x to 6.x but I don't see how I 
> can. Browsers have become so standard that I cannot realistically 
> deliver Netscape 6 out to what should be basic and fundamental browsing. 
> Ugh.
> 
> Has anyone a *native* port of Netscape 6, the Java plugin, and the Flash 
> plugin for FreeBSD?
> 
> I'm going to try Netscape 6, Flash, and Java on Linux and see if that 
> works. I'll bet it works there.
> 
> Am I missing something here in my setup???
> 
> Any other peoples experiences welcomed!
> 
> Thanks,
> -Roger
> 
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