Re: browser wars

[Jack Russell]

On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 09:16  AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

Well, first off, it depends on what you mean by 'very crashy'. If you 
mean 'crash nearly every time I use them', then you have *other* 
problems with your OS (like networking problems), it's a plain bad OS 
(most revs of System 7, imo, or point zero OS revs 9.0, 8.0, 8.5 vs 
9.1, 8.1 and 8.6), you have underlying filesystem problems, harware 
problems, or you have a resource-starved system. 
(memory/processor/diskspace) which will cause *most* things to be 
crashy.
Very well said Mr. Johnson. If an app repeatedly crashes, then look at 
the whole system. A corrupted application is the easiest kind of 
problem to fix. Most crashes are system resource or conflict problems.
All of the browsers I've ever used (Mosaic, Mozilla, Netscape, IE, 
Opera, iCab, Safari, Camino, Firebird...off the top of my head) do 
crash on occasion, and some can even be termed crashy (early Mozilla 
revs were hugely buggy, as have been some Netscape versions)
I'm still waiting for my first Safari crash <knock on wood>, it's been 
a remarkably stable browser. The latest Mozilla has been trouble free 
also.

If these are crashing a lot stop and think about what you do with your 
computer...if most of your time is in a browser, then you could have 
an entirely unrelated system problem.
You cannot say this one too often. Look to the basics first.

Jack Russell

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