From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 7: 1:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D1F37B416 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:01:17 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id A14D1BB26; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:01:00 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Hartmann, O." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscpae/Netscpae6 oddities Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:01:00 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020308034643.J8483-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20020308034643.J8483-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020308150100.A14D1BB26@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ... -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message