[plug] Netscape & Stability ...

[brian coleman]

Gary wrote in reply to Trevor...

>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).

I run Communicator 4.6 over a much upgraded Slackware 3.3., libc5.4.33, 
kernel 2.0.37 on one of my systems and have no problems with Communicator 
stability. Perhaps the experimental libc is the problem.

Brian C





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