Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 02:02:39 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> To: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: netscape Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970426225316.6508A-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
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this is an answer ... kind of ... i just installed netscape 3.0 from the netscape site, the FreeBSD version. it's running fine - for the first 5 minutes or so of every session. it crashes after the first 5 minutes or so of use (so that you have to kill it) - after following a couple of links. it will crash if i stay at the startup screen, and click my right mouse button 25 times or so. i notice each time i restart it, it takes a little longer to start up. after 5 or so restarts, everything hangs, and i must reboot. i start it from an xterm window, ie, shell, in the command-line. i searched the maillist, but didn't see this problem, exactly. is it running fine for other 2.2.1 users? i can play with the mail for much longer, and it doesn't crash anything - so far. i allocated 2M for RAM cache, 4 for disk. i also notice it crashes, even when run as root, if trying to save an address/bookmark to w31 netscapes stuff on a DOS partition. i did find i could get it to use w31 addressbook/bookmark by manually entering a new field in the preferences file, even though the address field disappears after you run netscape once. *** warning *** i traced this down to using my W31 netscapes bookmarks and addressbook on my DOS partition. but i still don't understand how netscape could get messed up by that! i mean, it just requests info from a driver, and gets it - i don't think it knows if it came from dos or bsd? and no other programs crash when accessing data from /dos ... ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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