On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
> Jan Krupa wrote: > > I have installed netscape4.5b2 under debian2.0. > > When I try to read debian-user mailing list archives > > (e.g. from September, august) first > > time it's O.K. but next times on the same month archives > > netscape just hangs I have to kill it (the archives are very big). > > > > When I try to read much smaller archives (e.g. debian-changes, > > September) it's all right. > > > > I had the same behavior using netscape4.x, but netscape3.x > > reads the archives well. > > > > Does anybody have any idea what causes such behavior of netscape ? > > May be I have configured netscape wrong. > > My be I some hint what change in preferences? > > I think this is a cache related bug, as turning off the (disk) cache in > Netscape will prevent this from happening (at least for me). > > Another workaround is to follow links from the main article index using > the middle mouse button. This will tell Netscape to open the link in a > new window so that you never have to reload the index from cache in the > first window. Unfortunely that way works only first time, I mean when I exit netscape and then after some time I start it again I cannot read the debian-user archives (e.g. September) even one time: netscape hangs again and I have to kill it. > YMMV. > -- > ( - - ) | <http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/> Jan
