From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 2 10:15:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from glatton.cnchost.com (glatton.cnchost.com [207.155.248.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EBC37B400 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:15:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by glatton.cnchost.com id NAA13631; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:15:20 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <200203021815.NAA13631@glatton.cnchost.com> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Taming Netscape Navigator? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Mar 2002 09:23:21 PST." Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:15:20 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Opera was fast last I used it, but the old versions I used crashed > multiple times a day. Netscape is usable for me; usually it only crashes I use opera for browsing and netscape for reading news. Opera hangs once a day (I am running tp2) but I still prefer it since it keeps all my open windows open on restart and is much faster and has no annoying freezes. Netscape just for reading news is fine and usually stays up for weeks. Netscape because I have multiple newsgroup windows open at the same time. > But what about "controlling" netscape? > > How or why does it make my X and/or window manager unusable? > > Has anyone ran netscape as a different user and set different > limits/priorities for it? I suspect (but have no proof) that netscape uses some sort of stop-and-copy garbage collector and during the GC phase it is blind to any mouse/keyboard actions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message