Hello yet again!
I think I've hit on another solution. The Netscape that currently comes
with RH 6.0 is NOT the most recent available. Since upgrading, the
trouble appears to have gone away.
Oh, and Stephan - use pine for email! It's old and plain, but works
extremely well.
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Stephan Zaniolo wrote:
> I'm not sure if this will help, but I had this same problem (GNOME, RH
> 6.0, Netscape 4.61). After I installed the Blackdown 1.1.7 JDK (and put it
> in my PATH), Netscape now works flawlessly with Java. (Well, I haven't
> noticed any problems yet, and I develop applets as well).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Stephan
>
> PS - Sorry for the lack of a formal intro. I've been lurking for a couple
> of weeks (ever since the ZD-Net article). My name is Stephan (Steven) and
> I'm looking at graduating college this May with a BS in Computer
> Engineering. I live around Chicago, Illinois, USA. I've been toying with
> Linux for about a year, but two months ago I installed Linux as my primary
> OS. (This has been a real trip! :^) If anyone looks closely, you'll
> notice that this e-mail is done in Eudora on Win. I'm running this in
> VM-Ware (wonderful product!) because I haven't found an e-mail program for
> Linux that I like yet. (It's amazing how stable Windows actually is when
> you only have one program running on it.) ;^)
>
> At 05:21 PM 10/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >> By far my biggest gripe about using Red Hat 6 is that I have never
> >> managed to get Java running in Netscape, ie as soon as Netscape (4.51
> >> and 4.61) smeels Java, it bombs out. Well, sometimes it can take up to a
> >> minute to crash, but crash it will every time it comes into contact with
> >> Java.
> >
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm new here, and I'm certainly no techie, but I'm having the same problem
> >you are - maybe with two brains we can get there. Unfortunately I haven't
> >had any luck in eliminating the bug. But I'm wondering if maybe it could
> >have something to do with the window manager. What do you use? I use
> >Gnome and java applets kill Netscape all the time for me. However, my
> >boyfriend also has Red Hat 6 but he uses XVWM (dunno what version) and
> >he's never had any problems.
> >
> >Well, at least now you know you're not alone. :)
> >
> >(Btw, in case anyone's curious who the heck I am, my name's Ingrid and I'm
> >a second year law student. I've had "casual" contact with Linux for about
> >a year and a half, but two months ago I finally got frustrated enough with
> >NT that I committed and got rid of Windows nonsense and just installed
> >Linux on my machine.)
> >
> >Ingrid
> >
> >
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