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sgi 8.2.8: Netscape 4.05

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Tue Aug 11 21:33:33 1998

To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:33:25 EDT
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>

System name:		opus.mit.edu
Type and version:	IP22 8.2.8 (with mkserv)
Display type:		GR3-XZ

What were you trying to do?
	Use the now default but still sucky version of Netscape.

What's wrong:
	It crashes.  Quite consistently.  Especially on pages
	with frames and plugins, like:
	http://www.intellicast.com/weather/bos/radarloop/

Quote:
No plugin libcosmoplayer.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type model/vrml.
No plugin libcosmoplayer.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type application/x-inventor.
No plugin Movieplayer. Reverting to save-to-disk for type video/msvideo.
No plugin libpngplug.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type image/x-png.
No plugin libcosmoplayer.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type x-world/x-vrml.
No plugin libivplug.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type graphics/x-inventor.
No plugin Movieplayer. Reverting to save-to-disk for type video/x-sgi-movie.
No plugin Movieplayer. Reverting to save-to-disk for type video/x-mpeg-system.
No plugin Movieplayer. Reverting to save-to-disk for type video/x-msvideo.
No plugin Movieplayer. Reverting to save-to-disk for type video/quicktime.
No plugin Movieplayer. Reverting to save-to-disk for type video/mpeg.
No plugin libpngplug.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type image/x-MS-bmp.
No plugin libpngplug.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type image/x-rgb.
No plugin XPM Plugin. Reverting to save-to-disk for type image/x-xpixmap.

[1]    Segmentation fault     Netscape

What should have happened:
	The old less buggy version of Netscape should have been kept
	as the default.

Please describe any relevant documentation references:
	[Please replace this line with your information.]

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