From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Aug 28 19: 0:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D4B37B440 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id TAA59594; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008290200.TAA59594@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: ports/20914: netscape enters busy-loop Reply-To: Kris Kennaway Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/20914; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kris Kennaway To: marka@nominum.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/20914: netscape enters busy-loop Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:54:33 -0700 (PDT) On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 marka@nominum.com wrote: > Netscape stops responding to keyboard / refresh / mouse / focus or > window destroy and enter a busy loop. This usually happens within > a hour of use, though I have had it occur within 30 seconds. The > only recover is to kill the process. Welcome to the wonderful world of Netscape for unix. This has always been the case, and there's nothing we can do about it. Some people report better stability with the Linux version, and it definitely helps if you disable java (java has never worked right on any version of Netscape for unix that I've used, and netscape obviously dont care enough to fix it) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message