Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 03:26:05 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape native version Message-ID: <199708081326.DAA28863@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> "Re: Netscape native version" (Aug 8, 1:43am)
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} On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 10:06:37PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: } > Jordan recently sent e-mail announcing that Netscape has a native } > implementation of Navigator. } > } > Actually, it was of Communicator. And, perhaps he should have mentioned } > it needs to run under 2.2 as it was linked dynamically and has VD } > (Version Discrepency) on the g++, c and stdc shared libraries. } } Anyone else notice that it often just refuses to die?? I'd say about 60% } of the time for me, when I close it by selecting "Exit" from the menu, } or close the window using the window manager, Netscape disapears from } the screen, but a process list shows me it's still there, eating up } 20MB or RAM and burning away my CPU. 'kill -9' is your friend.. Dies just fine for me. } Also, the java performance just seems HORRIBLE with the FReeBSD version.. } Idon't know what they're doing, but for some reason the FreeBSD version } runs about 1000% slower than the Linux version of Communicator (and the } BSDI 3.0 series). My Java performance seems okay. Haven't tried the other versions yet to compare. } Finally, Communicator locked up on me last night - actuallly it locked } up and took out my system with it.. complete freeze. X was still } "displaying", but the keyboard and mouse were dead. The machine wouldn't } even answer pings... complete freeze. Needless to say, since I've been } running FreeBSD (almost 2 years) this is the first time this has ever } happened to me. Lock up. Not even a crash. Nothing is worse, and horrible } images of win95 were filling my head. } } Solution: } rm -rf /usr/local/netscape } mount /cdrom } pkg_add /cdrom/packages/All/slynx-2.7.tgz } } Communicator may have a pretty interface, but it's a behemouth, } resource eating, system crashing, poor performing monster. Surely they } can do better... Communicator is a fairly important product. That Netscape is now apparently supporting FreeBSD is a *very* important development! It raises the status of FreeBSD considerably. It works reasonably well considering that it's in beta right now. Please lighten up. Richardhome | help
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