Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:44:45 -0500 From: Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whither Mozilla ? Message-ID: <20021025214445.GA41509@lulu.bad.dog> In-Reply-To: <60227.1035571709@monkeys.com> References: <60227.1035571709@monkeys.com>
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:48:29AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > Could someone please answer the following questions for me? > > #2) Is there anyplace where I might be able to download a working > binary of a reasonably recent release of Mozilla that would run > OK on a FreeBSD 4.3 system? (I don't have time to upgrade this > box to a newer FreeBSD rev just now. To0 many other things going > on.) FreeBSD binaries of mozilla 1.0 and 1.1 are available at <ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/>. I don't know if these will run under 4.3. > > #3) In lieu of #2, is there anyplace where I could download sources > for a reasonable recent (and reasonably stable) version of Mozilla > that I could build (without having to spend a full day futzing with > it) on FreeBSD 4.3? I assume you have tried /usr/ports/www/mozilla. You may also want to check out /usr/ports/www/linux-mozilla which will run the linux binary via emulation. Building mozilla from source is going to take as long as a buildworld so it might make sense to just upgrade your system. > #4) Is it just me or is Mozilla (and also Netscape) remarkably unstable > and prone to frequent total crashes on _any_ flavor of UNIX? (Even > though I have both FreeBSD and Linux boxes here, there are still > sites that I simply cannot see... at least not without the broswer > up and crashing on me... unless I power up my Windoze box and look > at them with IE. Yecch. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? This is REALLY > aggravating, and I can't believe that other people would put up > with such shoddy untestedness in such a basic Internet tool.) No problems here aside from the occasional "designed" for IE site. I don't think I've seen a total crash since the .9x releases. NN4 on the other hand... thank $DEITY for mozilla. -- Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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