Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-07 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: Most assuredly yes. About half the time I start the bastard up, it locks and I have to do the kill -9 thing and try again. On Friday 06 April 2001 09:20, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: Is anyone else having problems with Netscape Communicator 4.76

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-07 Thread Mark Weaver
That's the easy part. click on File-SaveAs-Draft. Mark "Stephen Lawrence Jr." wrote: Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Craig: I can write a letter in Netscape for two hours with the security that it won't be wiped out by a crash. Still, just to be sure, I save it as a draft every few

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Craig: May I suggest one thing that may or may not solve your problem. I had the same problem with Netscape. It crashe every ten minutes. Finally, after consulting with a computer friend, I decided to switch from a PS/2 mouse to a serial mouse. Real easy to do. Bingo, all problems with

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
Ya, with the 7.2 dist, Konqueror does not load java pages properly. Plus, I use the Netscape SSLIMAP functions to check email and have been unable to find another email client that supports multiple SSLIMAPaccounts. :( Craig Sprout wrote: "Stephen Lawrence Jr." wrote: > > Is anyone else having

Re[2]: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Rusty Carruth
Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Stephen Lawrence Jr." wrote: Is anyone else having problems with Netscape Communicator 4.76 locking up and taking %99 CPU time? I have to do a 'kill -9' on it all the time. If it's not a Java issue, it's likely the NS' inability to handle

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Lyric
Oddly enough, I had the opposite problem As soon as I put 8.0 on, I could no longer access the internet through my lan. I tried running Mandrake 8.0b2 on one computer, while I left my good Linux computer running 7.2 (which it is running flawlessly right now). 8.0 can see and ping all the

Re[2]: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Rusty Carruth
Lyric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oddly enough, I had the opposite problem As soon as I put 8.0 on, I could no longer access the internet through my lan. I tried running Mandrake 8.0b2 on one computer, while I left my good Linux computer running 7.2 (which it is running flawlessly right

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
Most assuredly yes. About half the time I start the bastard up, it locks and I have to do the kill -9 thing and try again. On Friday 06 April 2001 09:20, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: Is anyone else having problems with Netscape Communicator 4.76 locking up and taking %99 CPU time? I have to

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Heron
I know it's not a fix, but instead of kill -9 from a cli, try ctrl-alt-esc, and left mouse click on the dead netscape. This works for me. Sad when we can only compare the best ways to kill netscape. I am disappointed. I just wish konquerer were faster. ron --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread John Wolford
Ok, Ok, i'll put in my $4.00/300*(3/2)It's almost (i said ALMOST) funny reading this thread. When i first installed 7.1 i noticed the same problem w/ Netscrape. After a short while it "went away". Then when i did a re-install the problem came back again, only to go away again after an

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread s
I don't know what's up with yours, but konqueror has always beat netscape hands down for me in stability and page loading. And it has only improved in 2.1! By the way, a new opera version is out today. I'm just about to install and try it out. -s On Friday 06 April 2001 02:47 pm, you

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:20 -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote: "Stephen Lawrence Jr." wrote: Is anyone else having problems with Netscape Communicator 4.76 locking up and taking %99 CPU time? I have to do a 'kill -9' on it all the time. If it's not a Java issue, it's likely the NS'

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Heron
I guess I just need to work with it more. Maybe its the "blank" while loading images, where netscape always gave the image as it loaded. Then again, I haven't looked deep into the configuration, just enough to enable java. --- s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what's up with yours, but

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
I use konqueror for most browsing but... Konqueror doesn't handle javascript as well as netscape does. There are some sites I frequent that require javascript work to make the website useful and konqueror just wont do it (my M$ outlook email interface at work is one such page that doesn't

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
One website that konqueror (at least on my system - Mandrake 8.0) can't handle is the DRI website. What happens: First off, the page is misrendered in text if I select any of the links to other DRI pages (the main page is OK). The problem is parts of the text overwrite each other so as to

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread s
H. Well, I don't go to exotic sites too often. I haven't had a problem. Hey, would you post one or two of those links so I can test mine out? -s On Friday 06 April 2001 05:59 pm, you wrote: One website that konqueror (at least on my system - Mandrake 8.0) can't handle is the DRI

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Randy Kramer
Wolfgang, Do you mean you're using Netscape Navigator, like version 3.0x? On Mandrake 7.2? Did you have any trouble installing it? I did, and gave up (I'm a newbie), but if you've got it working, I'll look back and tell you the problem I had -- maybe you can tell me how to solve it. (It was

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
Here is the link to the Direct Rendering page: http://dri.sourceforge.net For an example of the problem select the Documentation link, then choose either the User Guide link or the DRI Compilation Guide link. Scroll down the page and you should find that some of the text on the page is

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread s
Oh man, I don't know how to tell you this, but mine looked good; just as I imagine the author intended. However, changing encoding did kick it back to home page. I'm using a 17" monitor at 1024x768 with 12 pt. comic sans. I wish I had a suggestion for you. Informative site tho, thanx, I've

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
Actually, now that I think about it, the problem may well lie with the fact that I have font antialiasing enabled with qt-2.3.0 in KDE. It works well for most things but some fonts are totally screwed. As for the DRI site...the package is NICE. I have an ATI Radeon 32 DDR video card that I

[Fwd: [expert] Netscape Locking Up]

2001-04-06 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Stephen: You can save your draft letter at any stage (and repeatedly) by clicking on: File, Save as, Draft You can also save any message received with: File, Save As, File Give it a name: report.txt and then in xterm copy it to a safe place. Benjamin "Stephen Lawrence Jr." wrote: