From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 14:51:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cs.selu.edu (cs.selu.edu [147.174.59.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C5837B404 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 14:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jholland@localhost) by cs.selu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g4ULp9W20114; Thu, 30 May 2002 16:51:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:51:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason P Holland To: "Roger P. Johnson" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does anyone use Netscape 6.x on FreeBSD that WORKS ? In-Reply-To: <3CF676C3.3030904@hirshfields.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message