On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:16:07PM -0500, paul wrote: > Netscape has some odd behaviors which I was wondering if anyone here could > shed some light upon. > > 1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as child > process either one or two times. Why does this happen? Is this normal > behavior for Netscape? If so, then why is the number of "child" Netscapes > not > always the same?
It is normal. The second process is for (supposedly) asynchronous DNS lookups. (The various resolver calls are blocking.) > 2) Whenever Netscape launches more than one "child" netscape, it hangs (for > varying amounts of time) before the browser becomes visible on my display. > Sometimes it never appears, and my xserver (XF86_SVGA) begins to eat up > processor time. Why is this. What is happening here? No other processes > seem to be affected. (at least as is apparent from output of top.) Netscape is buggy? Typically you can reduce the annoyances by killing java and javascript. > 3) Often sites with banner adds will cause Netscape to hang if java and/or > javascript is enabled. I do not keep them enabled, but some sites require > them for various reasons. Other times this has caused Netscape to dissapear > from my display, (crash?) but Netscape continues to run in the backround and > begins to eat up processes and memory. Once this happened and a mysterious > symbolic link appeared in the home directory I was using before I could shut > down Netscape. (this happened somewhere in the domain > http://www.playboy.com) > Are there hostile Java applets? Javascripts? How can I continue to use > Netscape while minimizing security risks? (If there are security risks > associated with Netscape 4.7) There are hostile applets, but more likely it's just a collection of bugs in Netscape. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. Netscum, Bane of Elves.
