Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Fred A. Miller)]

Dwight Johnson wrote:
> 
> Ever since installing SuSE 5.2 in May, I have been experiencing
> nuisance crashes of X and even Linux that are somehow associated with
> Netscape. And I get the same results using three different releases of
> Netscape.
> 
> Well, now I have a theory about where the bug is and I am wondering if
> anyone else has had the same experience.
> 
> Installing SuSE was the same time I developed a web site I had
> to maintain daily (<A HREF="http://www.olypen.com/linux/";><A HREF="http://www.olypen.com/linux/</A">http://www.olypen.com/linux/</A</A>>) and to do that I kept
> a couple of browsers launched into a separate virtual screen in
> addition to my usual browser use in a single virtual screen.
> 
> So that is my theory--Netscape can't handle being mounted in multiple
> virtual screens. It creates some kind of memory leak or other
> instability and after a day or so the whole thing crashes, X and all.
> The crash usually occurs when I close a browser. Or it can as well
> happen if I exit Netscape. Or when just switching from one virtual
> screen to another.

Two problems I see here...one, Netscape is not reinterant, and recently
there was a patch relesed to fix a memory leak in the WIN95 version, or
so I was told.  Kinda fits, eh?  I've not had Netscape take KDE, X, nor
Linux down, but I've had it freeze up tighter than a crabs hind end.  It
can be done just about at will if you use a common command to place
marked data into the clipboard....the Ctl. insert keys.  First, this
works in all the MickySoft versions, as it does in the Linux version of
StarOffice and other applications.  Why Netscape is "busted" is
unknown.  It's also unknown why Java support is limited in Netscape for
Linux.  It's SUPPOSED to be a complete port.....yeah, right.

Fred


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Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
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