Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[lsayre@xxxxxxxxxxx (lsayre)]

tkelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 23:16:46 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
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> >
> >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.
> 
> I find Netscape for unix to be extremely buggy in general ... It crashed
> very strangely the other day - I was loading a simply jpg image from a web
> page which happened to be rather large (~500kB).  Then X started really
> freaking out, changing my resolution,  and my screen started goofing up as
> if someone were adjusting the monitor geometry by hand (but very fast).  It
> was the weirdest thing I've ever seen a PC do.  Then Netscape crashed, and
> although X seemed OK, I killed the x server anyway and noticed netscape was
> still running at the prompt (??) and had to kill it.
> 
> --
> 
> "The three things were damnably clever constructions of their kind,
> and were furnished with ingenious mettalic clamps to attach them to
> organic developments of which I dare not form any conjecture."
>                                                -H.P. Lovecraft
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I just installed the new Netscape Communicator Pro 4.5b1 (Beta 1, I
guess) for Linux 2.0 painlessly over the top of Netscape 4.04 a few days
back, and have been giving it a heavy shakeout (mail, WWW, Usenet,
FTP).  I found it on the Netscape FTP site.  There is a smaller non Pro
version there as well, but I don't know what the differences would be,
except 13 meg for the regular, and 17 meg for the Pro 'tar.gz' files
respectively.

It seems to be MUCH more stable (and speedy) than 4.04, and has some
nice enhancements to boot!  I made a temporary directory and moved the
'tar.gz' file there, and 'tar xvzf' unzipped it.  From there I ran the
install routine installing it to the /opt/netscape directory on top of
my 4.04 (it saved all of the 4.04 files with the .old extension), then I
deleted the temporary directory, and instantly I was completely back in
business. 

4.5b1 retained my bookmarks, newsgroups, and all preference settings
(plugins, applications, etc..) just as they were before. I've
subsequently deleted all of the 4.04 (.old) files, since I won't be
going back.  For a Beta it is solid (it makes 4.04 seem like the beta
version), and well worth it (free AFAIKT)!

PS: I'm using SuSE 5.2 with KDE 1.0 and the 2.0.35 (SuSE) Kernel.
 
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