Brad wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >if you are running a system > > > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with > > > > netscape. > > > > > > No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0 > > > systems. I know. I suffer from it every day. > > > > I hate to rain on your parade, but LOTS of people run Netscape 4.5 and > > 4.6 with libc 2.0 systems without difficulty. In my last job I had 20+ > > users doing so, and many of them were HEAVY users of Netscape. > > Then there's people who seem to have Netscape working fine under glibc 2.1 > (i'm not one of them, but i've heard so somewhere). That doesn't mean > there isn't a problem somewhere, just that you haven't encountered it on > your boxen. > > > 6:45pm up 33 days, 2:18, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 > > What's your machine's uptime have to do with Netscape? > > > Obviously, YMMV > > Exactly! >
Indeed; it does seem to be that mileage varies between different users. I started with 4.6, and am now at 4.7. In both versions, I can expect Netscape to fairly consistently close every other time I open Netscape Navigator and then Netscape Messenger and put in my password. As soon as I enter my password, *boom*, Netscape closes. I fire it back up and repeat the sequence and life is good. After my session, I shut down Netscape (to free RAM and to prevent Netscape memory leaks), and the next time I repeat the process, I can expect the same results. Of course Netscape also closes whenever I hit a web site with badly configured Java. This has lead me to conclude that Netscape on Linux is consistently flakey. Of course, as mentioned, your mileage may vary.
