--- Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm still desperately seeking the cause of > intermittent total lockups > > which occur every few days, always when I'm > online. I think, but not > > sure, that Netscape (4.77) has always been > running at these times. > > Kernel 2.4.13ac at present. > > > > Has anyone seen this? > > Does your hard disk light start flashing constantly > when this happens? > What I used to see with Netscape 4.x was that if I > entered too much text > in an editor widget in a web form, Netscape would > freak out and the
yeah memory leak it is the libxpm (netscape likes old version) + kernel VM + Netscape all together :-) > whole system would thrash itself to death. I don't > recall what kernel > I was running back then, but it was probably in the > 2.2 series. > > This has not happened to me since switching to > Mozilla, a far superior > browser in every respect (well, starting with 0.9.4, > at least). My god, Mozilla is fine if you got 128Mb RAM and at least 200MHz CPU. If less than that, I would recommend Opera, althouth some buggy in file upload and no java support, but it is fine. Opera will add and fix soon I hope. Another one should be Galeon, promising .... > Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Get organised for Christmas early this year!
