When I run Netscape under NT I routinely see it display on the status
line that it is cleaning up N cache files. I agree that it can be a
memory hog but seeing that my Linux workstation has 128MB of memory I
don't really notice this very often. I use Netscape daily as my primary
email client and web brower and I have found it to be pretty stable. The
only time I have problems is when I hit a page that loads some sort of
Java applet. Most of the time Java stuff runs fine but other times it
either crashes or at least causes the UI to hang and so I'm force to
kill it.
"Paul M. Foster" wrote:
>
> Theory 3:
>
> Memory, and lots of it. I can completely understand why someone with 256M
> would have no problems, since Netscape is a well-known memory hog. It
> would appear that no one built in graceful compensation for low memory
> situations in Netscape. I don't know, but I wonder if Netscape tries to
> keep some of its cached stuff in memory as well as on disk. My wife,
> running Win95, has similar problems and can solve them only by killing
> cache items or restarting Netscape. I've heard similar things on this
> list as well, under Linux.
>
> Paul M. Foster
>
> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, MongrZ wrote:
>
> >
> > Well...here is theory two:
> > All the programmers at Netscape use Matrox boards!
> > Since Benjamin and I both have Matrox boards...and neither have any problems.
> > :-)
> >
> > However I'm now using a Riva TNT.....with no diffuculties thus far. It's not
> > that I'm not pushing Netscape as hard as the next guy.....I do alot of surfing
> > and the browser is open for hours at a time.
> >
> > Rick Thompson
> >
> > Ralph Clark wrote:
> >
> > > Rick Thompson wrote:
> > >
> > > > You're not special ;-)
> > > > I too have been using Netscape for browsing/email for quite some time. I do
> > > > get occasional crashes to to runaway java crap....but by and large it works
> > > > reliably. I too only install using the files on Netscape ftp site. I think
> > > > your theory on hardware (specifically the video adapter) is probably dead
> > > > on. I've always used top notch hardware (especially video) and maybe that's
> > > > why we don't have the problems most other people seem to be having. How
> > > > about an impromptu hardware survey from you guys with the problems?
> > >
> > > It's not the video hardware. I've had the same problems with all Communicator
> > > 4.x using an ancient S3 5426 board, an ancient ET4000, an ATI Mach 64
> > > Xpert@Play AGP and an STB Velocity 128 AGP (Nvidia Riva). That's on Linux-FT,
> >
>
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