Richard, On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:31, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
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Hmmnn. Well on my amd64, Opera regularly causes a complete freeze on my system, while Netscape at worst just crashes. Netscape 7.1 seems pretty good, whatever its provenance.
I hope you realize that symptoms of this sort (system freeze) cannot be pinned on Opera or on any user-level code. When a system with protected memory exhibits gross, system-wide failures, it is by definition a bug in some privileged code (kernel or driver, e.g.) or a failure of some hardware component. The fact that the symptom is associated with the use of these applications is essentially incidental. Other applications that use the right combination of libraries, kernel functions, execution patterns etc. will trigger the same or similar symptoms. You either have some bad hardware or are running a buggy kernel or device driver.
- Richard. -- Richard Kimber
Randall Schulz