From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 24 17:47:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24164 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:47:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24158 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:47:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA06164; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:47:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA03468; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:47:23 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:47:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199901250147.SAA03468@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Archie Cobbs Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system In-Reply-To: <199901250020.QAA22590@bubba.whistle.com> References: <1476.917220230@zippy.cdrom.com> <199901250020.QAA22590@bubba.whistle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message