On 99-11-30 Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> Christian Kurz schrieb am Dienstag, den 30. November 1999:
What does this mean? ;)
> > Does netscape really needs libc5?
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd /opt/netscape/netscape
> [...]
> > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40151000)
> > This Version oft Netscape doesn't need a libc5 and is running very
> > well here. So why do we need the libc5 version?
> My experience is, that the libc6 versions of netscape 4.61 and 4.7 are
> not really stable with libc 6.1. To be precise, both programs often
> (not always) die, when you enter a wrong password or when you close a
> netscape window (I normally work with many netscape windows, which cA
Strange, I didn't notice this effect here. I will try to reproduce it,
but I'm not sure if I will be able to do so.
> be opened by pressing Alt-n or by opening a new URL with the middle
> mouse button. Then I close unneeded windows by simply "deleting" them
> via the window manager. The libc6 versions of Netscape often
Why do you kill them? If use Alt-n to open them, then use Alt-w to close
them.
> completely die when closing one window). In contrast to this,
What if you try to use the closing-mechanism of netscape?
> netscape was much more stable with libc 6.0 and also the libc 5
> versions are much more stable than the libc6 version in combination
> with libc 6.1.
I think that this is more a problem of the way you use to close netscape
windows and not of the libc that netscape uses.
Ciao
Christian
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