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Subject: Re: Anyone noticed the new FreeBSD Netscape looping?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970812210431.22554B-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> from Howard Lew at "Aug 12, 97 09:07:03 pm"
To: hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com (Howard Lew)
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:28:37 +0900 (JST)
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Howard Lew writes:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Mike O'Brien wrote:
>
>> 	I've noticed that the new FreeBSD-specific Netscape 4.02b<whatever>
>> 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.
>
> I wonder if this has to do with 2.2.1 because I have seen quite a number
> of users with 2.2.1 reporting problems too.  But it seems to run fine on
> 2.2.2 except for the occasional startup pause (15 to 20 seconds)...
> Occurs once in a while.

I'm running 3.0-current.  It happens to me too.

Greg