From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 6:14:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B395437B84B for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 06:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.00) id A1F9E79C00F2; Wed, 31 May 2000 06:22:01 -0700 From: chip To: Ken Bolingbroke , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape... Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:14:44 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00053106162900.70777@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just curious, have you disabled java and javascript in preferences? I am using the native FBSD version of 4.72 without it crashing at all, and all I did was disable java, and turned javascript back on, in the preferences. Chip Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > Tried that. I've reinstalled repeatedly, different versions, Communicator > vs. Netscape. They all crash. Moreover, I've been using Netscape on AIX, > Irix, Solaris, and Linux, besides FreeBSD, for the last 5 years or so. > They've all been variably unstable. Even when everything else on the > machine is stable. I've concluded that either Netscape is inherently > unstable no matter the platform, or it just doesn't like me. :-) > > Ken Bolingbroke > hacker@bolingbroke.com > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, BWS - Offwhite wrote: > > > I had problems with Netscape at one point. Simply use pkg_delete to > > remove all traces of it and add the most recent version you can get. I > > think tha tis 4.73 right now. > > > > This worked for me. > > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > > > > Yup. Crashes regularly, and I don't even use it that heavily. All the > > > windows disappear, and the prompt from where I started it reports "Bus > > > error netscape (core dumped)". This is Communicator version > > > 4.72. > > > > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Cliff Rowley wrote: > > > > > > > Is anyone else having problems with Netscape? It keeps dying with a > > > > 'bus error'... Nothing else on the system appears to be suffering, just > > > > Netscape... > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Chip Wiegand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ visit Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message