Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:15:47 +0100 From: John Toon <j.a.toon@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ... Message-ID: <39BE56B3.887F2788@btinternet.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009120035110.297-100000@adsl-151-197-209-37.bellatlantic.net>
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Bryan Liesner wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, O. Hartmann wrote: > > >Well ... We use FreeBSD for about 5 years on our boxes and throughout today it has > >been never fixed that Netscape crashes all the day! It is not only a problem of "one" > >port, either the Linux port (why using Linux port? I have a BSD operating system, a > >UNIX, not a nasty Linux!!!), or BSDI port - all the day the same, on all machines: > >crashing, crashing! I now, this type of error reporting is not of what could be helped on, > >but the diagnostics are always the same. SIG 11, SIG 10. On different machines, different > >installations and the likelyhood of commiting everywhere the same mistake is very small ... > > I was banging my head against the wall on this one too. Check your > XF86Config. Make sure you have BOTH scaled and unscaled fonts: > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" > > Netscape would crash every time until I corrected this. You might even > get away with just defining the 75dpi fonts with scaled and unscaled. > > ========================================================== > = Bryan D. Liesner LeezSoft Communications, Inc. = > = A subsidiary of LeezSoft Inc. = > = bleez@bellatlantic.net Home of the Gipper = > ========================================================== In general, there is a simple rule for determining whether Netscape will usually crash: 1.) If the page has Java, it will crash. 2.) If the page has Javascript, it will crash. :-( Some pages are the exception to these rules, but in general, they are the *exceptions*. In particular, the JVM implentation is *appalling*; I cannot believe it was released the way it is. I don't even consider it Alpha quality code, given its performance. And Netscape don't seem to have bothered fixing it with any of their further releases in the 4.xx line. Given the progress of Mozilla, I expect that I might finally be able to completely get rid of the Communicator suite with the release of M18. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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