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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:47:23 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system
Message-ID:  <199901250147.SAA03468@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901250020.QAA22590@bubba.whistle.com>
References:  <1476.917220230@zippy.cdrom.com> <199901250020.QAA22590@bubba.whistle.com>

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> > I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having,
> > myself.  I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for
> > ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems.  My netscape
> > still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any of
> > my system so much as once.
> > 
> > Why the wide disparity in experience, I wonder?
> 
> Do you ever run Java applets? Netscape 4.5 seems to work fine
> until running Java, which kicks off some sort of time bomb.
> Death is not immediate, but it is guaranteed.

Agreed.  However, I disabled Java, and I can also get death anytime I
try to download a file using netscape.  Not fun.

In the interim I'm back to using 3.07, which is rock-solid but doesn't
support all of the java that I'd like it to. ;(


Nate

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