Yeah... I'm looking into mozilla (almost) as we speak. I just really find
it hard to believe that Netscape was released with such a serious flaw...
disturbing actually... but I guess we just acknowledge it and move on,
brainlessly accepting "it's impossible to create flawless software" and
"bugs should take more than a year to fix by nature"...
*shudder.
How stupid.
Anyway. I will continue to use lynx for the majority of browsing, and
will look more into mozilla and KDEs konqueror. In the mean time, I wish
good luck to all the netscape users out there... And wish just as hard
that I see AOL/Time Warner (Gates, and many more) way down under some day.
Cheers,
.ryan
On 12-Jun-2000, Christoph Hammann wrote:
> 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:
> __________
> >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
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> "On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK'
> >> -everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS."
>
>
> --
> This is not here.
