netscape - was Re: [plug] wine, netscape

[Kai]

G'day Bret,

I dunno about anyone else, but apart from Messanger crashing when trying to
email recipients from the address book I don't have any of these problem
with NS 4.73 + in Linux. I use RH 6.2 and I also installed 4.73, that works
too.

As I said, the only problem I have NS crashing when I try to send to
multiple recipients from the address book.!
It has never crashed my box so bad that I have to reinstall.

Maybe it's just me?

/Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bret Busby" <bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 12:21 PM
Subject: netscape - was Re: [plug] wine, netscape


> Matt Kemner wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> > > And, go back to 4.08? That was the version used on RH5.2.
> > >
> > > Does that run on RH6.2? It was previously run on RH 5.2, which had the
> > > 2.0.35 kernel (I think), whereas RH 6.2 has the 2.2.something kernel
> >
> > The kernel version is not so important, it's the libc version
> > but most glibc2.0 programs will work with glibc2.1, but it's the
opposite
> > that is not true.
> >
> > I'm still running the same version of Netscape I was running when I had
> > glibc2.0.
> >
> > If the version of Netscape you have requires libc5, you will need to
> > install the libc5 compatibility library. (There IS one supplied with
RH6.2
> > isn't there?)
> >
> > anyway.. TRY it and see. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
> > If it works, you've gained something.
> >
> >  - Matt
>
> Well, I just booted up RH 6.2, and tried to run netscape (4.75), to try
> to download 4.08. But, when I tried to run Netscape, it caused a
> destructive system crash, causing the system to reboot, as soon as I
> clicked on the Netscape icon in the toolbar. When RH was rebooting,
> during the fsck, heaps of messages appeared, with "setting filetype to 6
> on .." many files in various locations. When it had completed, and,
> booted, I logged in, and ran X-windows (as me, user, not root). When
> X-windows ran, the two jobs that automatically load, on starting
> X-windows, the gnome help browser, and the file manager thing, with my
> home directory displayed, while having the windows appear on the screen,
> did not appear in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. The home
> directory window, showed core as a piston, rather than the yellow smiley
> bomb, which is as it usually shows it.
>
> Maybe netscape just doesn't like me, or my computer. Or, maybe, it's got
> something nasty in it, that I don't yet know about.
>
> The only way that I can get 4.08 downloaded, is to save it to an OS
> partition, as I don't have the room in my data partition. As Netscape on
> Linux appears to have become malevolent, and may have done some damage
> to the Linux installation, it appears that I now have to reinstall
> Linux. (And, no, Matt, I can't do it with Debian, in this instance - I
> have some stuff that has to be done using RH, urgently, for school).
>
> --
>
> Bret Busby
>
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