From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 4 0:37:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A47B837BEBB for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 00:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 2754 invoked by uid 211); 4 May 2000 07:37:07 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:07:06 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: spork Cc: Allen Campbell , Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem! Message-ID: <20000504130706.B2663@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000502231735.A80066@const.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from spork@super-g.com on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 02:53:36AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org spork said on May 4, 2000 at 02:53:36: > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Allen Campbell wrote: > > > I've installed Netscape 6 beta 1 on winblows 95 and 98, Debian > > (2.2) and Caldera. What are you talking about? Perhaps you've > > nurtured some kludged up mess of a box that's unlikely to run > > notepad with any stability? I keep hearing this predictable blather > > about Netscape 6 and wondering just how cruel I have to be to a > > system to reproduce these `crashes', but I have yet to experience > > it. It's certainly not perfect but it rivals 4.x for stability. > > Here's a URL that will blow up 6 with some reliability: > > http://www.word.com/ > > Lots of DHTML and crap. IE survives, as does Netscape 4.x, but Mozilla, > er, NS 6 will bomb, as does IE5 for the mac... I've removed my copy of NS 6, but Mozilla M15 -- linux build, on FreeBSD -- seems to work. A bit slow (ok, very slow) but hasn't crashed yet. What a ghastly page, though. If it crashes on windows, well - doesn't everything? R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message