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Subject: Re: netscape dies - core dump - Floating point exception
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
> > All of a sudden - when I access some web sites, netscape disappears.
> > root terminal says;
> >
> > "/kernel: pid 324 (netscape.bin), uid 0: exited on signal 8 (core
> > dumped)"
> 
> Netscape is like that. Live with it.
> Well, try turning off java and javascript -- that helps.
> 
> There's supposed to be a beta release of Netscape 6 (based on Mozilla)
> on April 5, I dont know what platforms the beta will cover but
> hopefully there's some improvement in stability. Even the "unstable"
> versions of many programs (like Gimp) don't crash like Netscape
> does.

I will live with it.  Thanks for the tip on Java.


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