[plug] Netscape & Stability ...

[Gary Allpike]

Communicator is the spawn of the devil, and very little seems to be able
to make it stable.

I would suggest that you try Navigator instead - it appears to be a lot
more stable.


regards

Gary Allpike


On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> I've had no end of problems with Netscape on a PC of late. It regularly crashes
> out with a "Bus Error", and this usually occurs when a window closes, the two
> main "events" being:
>   - Press close on a browser window
>   - Enter a login/password and submit it
> 
> What is this sort of crash related to? X-Server? Kernel? Libc6? Window Manager?
> 
> I'm running Debian 2.1 + some unstable packages, kernel 2.2.10, kde 1.1.1,
> libc6 2.1.1 ...
> 
> Any ideas? It happens with both Communicator 4.6 and 4.61 (for glibc2
> versions).
> 
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