RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-03 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
-Original Message- From: David BAUDENS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 July 2000 12:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good? Alex Boag-Munroe écrivit : 4.73 is stable? Yes, it is. * Well it ain't for me, and the previous version was fine. Besides

RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-03 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good? I don't know. Everyone seems to kick Netscape. Why ? It browses, it uses the standard plugins, it does java and javascript. I haven't had Netscape crash for ages, although j-tull.co.uk used to do it every time ! It is by far the best br

RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-03 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
-Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 July 2000 1:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good? David BAUDENS wrote: Alex Boag-Munroe écrivit : 4.73 is stable? I would suppose that depends on your definition of stable. I

RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-03 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 June 2000 1:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good? Excuse me master beta tester *scoffingly sarcastic remark* but which java sites was it that "your" Netscape was choking on. Mine doesn't miss a beat!

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Alex, I must ask you and the list to forgive and I humbly apologize for my rude outburst. That was totally uncalled for. I honestly don't know what got into mt that day. Please, forgive me. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 1 ...it's not windows! Registered Linux user #

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-02 Thread Guillaume Rousse
David BAUDENS a écrit : Guillaume Rousse écrivit : 4.73 is stable? Yes, it is. I'm still facing systematic crash when using some of the adressbook feature (lists, for example). Here's an exemple of the crash log : netscape-communicator: X Error of failed request: BadGC

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-02 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
FWIW, my machine is an incremental upgrade from ancient RH releases, and something has crufted Netscape to near death: The mime-types are crippled, all Java sites lock it solid (using Sun JDK 1.2) and the fonts are sub-visible. Mozilla, where it works, is far preferrable, but lacks essential

Re: RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-02 Thread David Faure
As for konquerer, It bairly managed to load a very basic page before it fell over ! Try the current one... What plugins are they planning to use ? Different ones again !? konqueror supports Netscape plugins. http://www.konqueror.org/ -- David FAURE [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-01 Thread David BAUDENS
Alex Boag-Munroe écrivit : 4.73 is stable? Yes, it is. AhemI don't call having to delete your Netscape folder every week because Netscape keeps hanging stable. What are you doing to must erase your ~/.netscape every week? Mine is more than one year old. When, how, where and on what

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse
David BAUDENS a écrit : Alex Boag-Munroe écrivit : 4.73 is stable? Yes, it is. I'm still facing systematic crash when using some of the adressbook feature (lists, for example). Here's an exemple of the crash log : netscape-communicator: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC

RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-01 Thread OS
: Geoffrey Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 June 2000 4:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good? -Original Message- From: bobby dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-01 Thread David BAUDENS
Guillaume Rousse écrivit : 4.73 is stable? Yes, it is. I'm still facing systematic crash when using some of the adressbook feature (lists, for example). Here's an exemple of the crash log : netscape-communicator: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) Major

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-07-01 Thread Civileme
David BAUDENS wrote: Alex Boag-Munroe écrivit : 4.73 is stable? I would suppose that depends on your definition of stable. I have a little script running in the background that checks at 5-minute intervals to see if anything that greps ux.so.2 is hogging 98% or more Cpu time and kill -9s

RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Geoffrey Lee
-Original Message- From: bobby dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good? Why didn't 7.1 include the latest Netscape? because it's beta I have read reviews that it is not the

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Con Kolivas
Why didn't 7.1 include the latest Netscape? I have read reviews that it is not the improvement that was hoped for. Is this true? If I want to install 6.0, is it as simple as just removing the current Netscape rpm's and then installing new binaries or source? I hate to ask what seems to be a

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Civileme
bobby dowling wrote: Why didn't 7.1 include the latest Netscape? I have read reviews that it is not the improvement that was hoped for. Is this true? If I want to install 6.0, is it as simple as just removing the current Netscape rpm's and then installing new binaries or source? I

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread John Triplett
Netscape 6.0 is really a custumized version of Mozilla. It is not complete they are still at what they call milestone 16. They have plans for bug fixes and features all the way up till milestone 20. so it will be a while until there will be a stable release of mozilla. Because of this,

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Weaver
for one thing Netscape 6 is still a beta release. It hasn't even made it passed PR1 (preview release 1) secondly, it's no where near as stable as 4.73, not all the features are functional...i could go on and on forever but I think you get the idea. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON

RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Netscape doesn't suck. The porblem alot of times is that users get it all messed up and don't know how to clean up after themselves. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 1299563 On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Geoffrey Lee

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Excuse me master beta tester *scoffingly sarcastic remark* but which java sites was it that "your" Netscape was choking on. Mine doesn't miss a beat! Never has and likely never will. Can't think of a one and I've been using Netscape since version 2.02. Now using version 4.73 on Linux Mandrake

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Lee Willis
John Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Netscape 6.0 is really a custumized version of Mozilla. It is not complete they are still at what they call milestone 16. They have plans for bug fixes and features all the way up till milestone 20. so it will be a while until there will be a stable

RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Alex Boag-Munroe
- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 June 2000 11:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good? for one thing Netscape 6 is still a beta release. It hasn't even made it passed PR1 (preview release 1) secondly, it's no where near as stable as 4.73, not all

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Civileme
as getting the kde2 stuff from Mandrake-devel contribs. Civileme -Original Message- From: Geoffrey Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 June 2000 4:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good? -Original Message- From: bobby dowling [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] Netscape 6.0 and good?

2000-06-30 Thread Civileme
Mark Weaver wrote: Excuse me master beta tester *scoffingly sarcastic remark* but which java sites was it that "your" Netscape was choking on. Mine doesn't miss a beat! Never has and likely never will. Can't think of a one and I've been using Netscape since version 2.02. Now using version