Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:43:09 -0800 | From | Graham TerMarsch <> | Subject | That whole Netscape problem... |
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I'll admit that I haven't been avidly following the whole thread going on regarding the problems that people have been having with Netscape as of late but it's gotten so bad recently that I've just got to throw in my own two cents....
I'm running Netscape 4.5 here on my RH 5.2 machine w/2.2pre7-ac2 and have found that more and more often with the newer kernels its hanging up. Don't recall this happening in any of the 2.1.13x kernels that I'd tried, but with the 2.2pre kernels it's happening about every half hour to an hour now. Not just when I'm browsing either, it frequently locks up when just picking up my e-mail or un-iconifying the window. I've found that by opening up more windows when browsing, I can cause the whole thing to just lock up that much more quickly than when running just a single browser window. Quite a pain though, as I usually browse with about 15-20 windows open at once. My girlfriend on the other hand, uses one window only and has never experienced a lockup.
From what I do recall having seen in the postings as of late, I get the sense that it has to do with Netscape entering a race condition with the sockets that are feeding information into it's own threading loop. I'm going to wager a guess that many people out there simply aren't experiencing the problems as they're primarily running it on a standard modem as opposed to a LAN/ISDN/ADSL/cable modem. I've got a cable modem here and I'm wagering that it's just feeding stuff in fast enough to force the race condition to occur.
Aside from just chucking out Netscape and moving off to some other browser (which isn't a viable alternative for me at this point), are there any suggestions as to what can be done to try to remedy this problem? Ideas?
-- Graham TerMarsch
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