Hi Ryan,
for a quick fix of Netscape's instantaneous crashes disable Java and Javascript in the
preferences. As to it not being able to run more than a few hours, well that's a
memory leak, I know of no fix for that other than not keeping Netscape windows open.
There _is_ a fix-Netscape-group, and it's called mozilla.org . They just offered an
early alpha of Netscape 5.0 for download and guess what, it's a memory hog again and
prone to crashing. Not fair saying that, I know, it being an alpha. Let's also hope
they fix a lot of "features" for the final version. But with Netscape having been
bought up by Time-Warner/AOL (shudder), or was it the other way round, I fear the
worst.
This leads us to alternative web browsers for Linux, here's my totally subjective list:
Most promising: KDE's konqueror
Fastest: Lynx (who *needs* pictures?)
Weirdest: Opera or StarOffice's (tie)
There surely are more, but I have no experience of them.
HTH!
Christoph
Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>On a quick side note...
>
>Is it just me... or is the entire linux community happily putting up
>with this (serious) flaw in netscape? I can't keep it open more than
>12 hours of casual use, or sometimes more than 20min of heavy browsing,
>without it going haywire and sucking up system resources like this...
>or freezing... or doing something it's not supposed to.
>
>I'm crossing my fingers that I'm out in the dark here... and that there's
>some kind of either fix, or big "lets fix netscape" group out there.
>
>Or maybe I'm just crazy? Anyone know something that I don't?
>
>.ryan
>
>
>On 08-Jun-2000, Marisa Mack wrote:
>> those ld libraries are most likely being used by netscape. every once in
>> very short while, netscape eats up every resource it can find. you can
>> safely kill those processes, and things should return to normal.
>>
>> marisa
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:50:00AM -0400, feng graced me with:
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > Recently, I noticed my Redhat 6.1 system is running much slower than
>> > before.
>> > Doing everything is slower. Opening the gnotepad takes 15 sec. Running a
>> > command like 'rpm -Va | more' takes about half an hour.
>> >
>> > I checked the process management, it shows two runing items called
>> > (id-linux.so.2) under the colum of CMDLINE take almost 90% of cpu time.
>> > What are those ( id-linux.so.2)? Can I kill them all?
>> >
>> > Where should I start to troubleshoot my system? Is there something
>> > running behind which I don't know? Thank you for you help.
>> >
>> > feng
>>
>> --
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>> "On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK'
>> -everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS."
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