From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 22 23:56:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EB037B85B for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:56:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA27621; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:56:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:56:37 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: "William R. Somsky" Cc: Matthew Jacob , Alex Le Heux , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crashing netscape? Message-ID: <20000223005637.A27599@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20000221130916.A11980@panzer.kdm.org> <20000222234256.B893@gramarye.halcyon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000222234256.B893@gramarye.halcyon.com>; from wrsomsky@halcyon.com on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:42:56PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 23:42:56 -0800, William R. Somsky wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:09:16PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:50:46 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which > > > causes it to crash right away- see the installation instructions that come out > > > when you install communicator-47- it said something about mkfontdir. > > > > > > It still crashes or wedges for me a lot, though. I tried mozilla, and that was > > > worse. > > > > For me at least, slashdot seems to make netscape crash eventually. > > Same here, except "eventually" is sometimes "immediately"... :-( Well, Alexander Leidinger's suggestion of disabling Javascript seems to help. I disabled both JavaScript and Style Sheets (in the "advanced" preferences menu) and in relatively limited testing, Slashdot didn't crash Netscape for me. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message