Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:01:00 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscpae/Netscpae6 oddities Message-ID: <20020308150100.A14D1BB26@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020308034643.J8483-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> References: <20020308034643.J8483-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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I use galeon built natively for FreeBSD. I previously used mozilla (native
for FreeBSD). I have Netscape 4.7 for Linux that I used when I've just *got*
to use a site that uses Java, but otherwise galeon works fine. It even
supports flash sites, though I must admit I haven't a clue why or how that
works.
On Thursday 07 March 2002 09:53 pm, Hartmann, O. wrote:
| Hello.
|
| I think nearly all FreeBSD users use the Linux binaries of Netscape
| Communicator 4.79 or Netscape6 or Opera 6.
|
| We also use both of them due to the fact there is no other reasonable
| alternatives especially those explicetely made for FreeBSD.
|
| The problem is that very often both Netscape types seems to crash
| X11 subsystem and freezing up the terminal and if there is no way
| to kill the locking process (as in a netwide environment in which
| no user has access to the terminal's console) the only way is to
| reboot the stuck terminal.
|
| Another bad phenomenon is that Netscape 4.79 does not end itself
| up when getting closed, so a kind of zombie process is eating up
| system performance.
| Netscape 6 tends to crash whenever a second window is opened by
| a on_close, then the process locks up in a weird condition and
| only a DESTROY, if possible, brings back the terminal.
|
| Are these problems well known and are there suitable solutions?
| The status quo is not a very professional solution for a
| low-administrativ profiled environment ...
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