From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 12 19:20:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA10622 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA10614 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA06678; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: "Mike O'Brien" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone noticed the new FreeBSD Netscape looping? In-Reply-To: <199708122159.OAA00923@anpiel.aero.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've noticed that the new FreeBSD-specific Netscape 4.02b > seems to have a tendency to go into a hard loop upon trying to exit. > Occasionally it does it when starting. > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE on a machine with 16Mb of > memory, and I'm here to tell you that this puppy page-thrashes, especially > when you try using the newsreader section. The solution to that is, > "Buy more memory," or, alternatively, "Run a Web browser that's not such > a pig." > > However, this looping behavior is worrisome because it doesn't > happen every time, just 2/3 of the time. This Is Not Good. Ive been running it for the last few days and have had zero problems. It hasnt crashed once, and everything appears to work, include Java. I was never able to get any of the BSDI version to work with Java, but the one for FreeBSD worked out of the box using the Netscape installer. This version of Netscape seems a LOT faster than any other version of Netscape I have used in FreeBSD.