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Date:      Thu, 4 May 2000 13:07:06 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        spork <spork@super-g.com>
Cc:        Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem!
Message-ID:  <20000504130706.B2663@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.10005040251120.29646-100000@super-g.inch.com>; from spork@super-g.com on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 02:53:36AM -0400
References:  <20000502231735.A80066@const.> <Pine.BSF.4.00.10005040251120.29646-100000@super-g.inch.com>

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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.


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