I am using opera beta for Linux and I love it. After reading this strand, I
think that I am taking Netscape off my machine!
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 7:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Anybody having any luck with Netscape 6
Umm...it's a RAM hog because it leaks like a sive.(spelling) And it's
crashing for the same reason. The memory leaks are so bad if this were a
person bleeding after running the program for 30 minutes they would have
bled to death.
In my opinion this program never left the alpha stage.
--
Mark
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 Anthony had this to say!
> Mine is really stable, even more stable than N4.x. The only problem is
that
> it crashes when I try to access a secure site, but other than that I'm
happy
> with it, and I use it for my main browser.
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> It doesn't slow down my computer too much also. That is probally due to
the
> fact that I have 256 MB of RAM though, since N6 is a RAM hog.
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> > I downloaded the stable version of Netscape 6 and it definitely renders
> > pages better, but crashes often. It doesn't seem to work with Tucows,
when
> > I go to select the state it either hangs or it reverts back to the
"Select
> > state" choice in the drop down, it crashes whenever I paste an address
> > into the address box, and sometimes it just disappears completely taking
> > other applications down with it.
> >
> > Are y'all getting yours to work ok?
> >
> > ps: it's also a beast to run as my machine slows down considerably...
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