Re: Netscape crashing regularly now

[Jan Carlson <janc iname com>]

Patrick O'Neil wrote:
> 
> Lately I have noticed, VERY irritatingly, that Communicator
> 4.5 tends to crash 9 times out of 10 when loading my homepage,
> http://www.freshmeat.net
> 
> The only thing that has changed recently was the layout of
> the site, not my system.  Does anyone else have any problems
> of this nature on certain websites with NS 4.5?

Over her NS 4.5 works fine with http://www.freshmeat.net 
as the home page.

I have all the Netscape features turned on
in  Edit Prefs|Advanced (including stylesheets)
and Edit Prefs|Navigator|Smart Browsing

ftp://contrib.redhat.com/libc6/i386/netscape-communicator-4.50-1.i386.rpm
ftp://contrib.redhat.com/libc6/i386/netscape-common-4.50-1.i386.rpm

RH 5.2 w. all updates
kernel 2.0.36-3 
Pentium 150 clocked to 200 
96mb memory
Matrox Mistique 4mb video
1024 x 768 x 32 bit color
using fvwm2

> 
> I am running RH 5.2, kernel  and all the latest
> 5.2 updates available (except for the latest kernel).
> 
> Netscape has worked rather well until now.  It just craps out,
> no error message, nothing.  One moment it is up and loading
> the page, the next instant, at about the same point each time,
> it suddenly vanishes.
> 
> What up?
> 
> Damn I wish there was a graphical alternative to NS.  Mozilla,
> Opera, SOMETHING.  StarOffice is too slow and kfm with KDE
> just doesn't support all that is out there on the web to
> anything near the extent that NS (or IE) does.
> 
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Jan Carlson
janc iname com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2