Re: Netscape 4.7 FREEZES my machine


Subject: Re: Netscape 4.7 FREEZES my machine
From: Vance Dubberly (vance@coloradosprings.com)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 16:17:38 MDT


I've not had Netscape 4.7 freeze the machine but it does leave processes
running even after it's been closed.

on 4/28/00 5:48 PM, Jeremy Knope at swttiggr2@yahoo.com wrote:

> i'd suggest a new kernel... i'm running
> YellowDog CS 1.2 on kernel 2.2.15pre20
> on: BlueG3 400 DVD with 192M of RAM
> netscape hasn't recently brought the entire system
> down... but it has in the past when i was running
> older software like a old kernel and such. try that...
> if you want you can try my compiled kernel i use, it
> has no support for anything besides what my comptuer
> has tho... ie no floppy or anything. not sure about
> modem or anything. but i turn most of the SCSI/IDE
> floppy and such... only rage128 support too.
> -Jeremy
>
> --- Robert Fout <rfout@damien.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been using Netscape 4.7 for about a month now.
>> Just recently it has
>> started to sometimes lock the whole machine up,
>> right when you go to a webpage.
>> The mouse won't move, can't switch to another
>> virtual desktop, can't switch to
>> a VT, can do a thing but hit the power button and
>> let fsck do it's work. Has
>> anyone else had this same problem.? I'm using YDL CS
>> 1.1 (Kernel 2.2.6) on a
>> B&W G3/400/128 MB, booting off a 2 GB partition on
>> the internal IBM IDE HD.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> --
>> -------------------------------------
>> "The knack to flying is learning how to
>> throw yourself at the ground and miss."
>>
>> From "Life the Universe and Everything"
>> by Douglas Adams
>>
>> Robert Fout
>> MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
>> rfout@damien.edu
>> http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
>> ICQ# 48433406
>
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> Jeremy T. Knope <jerome@knopej1.umeres.maine.edu>
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Vance Dubberly
ColoradoSprings.com
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