Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2702 mails)

[samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Samy Elashmawy)]

Opera is/'was working on ome , check there web page for new info its been
months since I have been there.

www.operasoftware.com

At 05:13 PM 6/19/1999 -0700, Seán" "Ó" Ceallaigh wrote:
>
>Any alternative browsers to Netscape for Linux out 
>there?  Does Opera Software make one?
>
>Sean
>
>--- Ralph Clark <rclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> 
>> "Meyerding, Henry W" wrote:
>> 
>> > I don't have problems with the browser crashing. 
>> I do however sometimes experience the case where
>> Netscape is using 1000f the CPU before I kill it
>> and restart it.  haven't been able to reproduce a
>> scenario that always produces this fault.
>> >
>> > > Hello Everybody:
>> > >
>> > > I've been having an ongoing problem with
>> netscape locking up, and
>> > > turning all
>> > > grey when sliding it out of the way.  It won't
>> even close out.  I
>> > > remember
>> > > this happening in 6.0, just not quite as often. 
>> It occurs about every
>> > > 10-20
>> > > minutes.
>> > > Besides installing a differen't version, I've
>> tried everything I could
>> > > think of
>> > > over the past 5 months, and still the same
>> problem.  Is this happening
>> > > to anybody
>> > > else?
>> 
>> Both crashing due to (presumably) segfaults _and_
>> the race condition you describe are common with
>> Netscape under Linux. Even the newest 4.61 version
>> has not cured this. The Java support is one of the
>> main offenders, memory leaks are the other
>> big bugger (literally). Netscape for Linux is a pile
>> of cack (as they say here in the UK), and I'd
>> happily shoot anyone who owned up to having been one
>> of the developers responsible.
>> 
>> Two things to know if you use this software:
>> 
>> 1) Don't expect the browser to survive more than a
>> couple of hours if you are doing any heavy surfing.
>> Run xosview to keep an eye on memory consumption and
>> CPU utilisation. If either begins to creep up, shut
>> down all netscape windows, check for
>> any zombie netscape processes and kill them off
>> before attempting to restart.
>> 
>> 2) If you take your time over composing email
>> messages in Netscape Compose, DO make sure that you
>> frequently 'Save As Draft'. Better still, compose
>> your email messages in an ordinary text editor.
>> 
>> --
>> rclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx        Ralph
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