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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:56:37 -0700
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Alex Le Heux <alexlh@funk.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Crashing netscape?
Message-ID:  <20000223005637.A27599@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000222234256.B893@gramarye.halcyon.com>; from wrsomsky@halcyon.com on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:42:56PM -0800
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002211411210.16231-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002211149020.8224-100000@beppo.feral.com> <20000221130916.A11980@panzer.kdm.org> <20000222234256.B893@gramarye.halcyon.com>

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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


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