[17096] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.2.19: netscape 4.61
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Aug 26 12:11:21 1999
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:11:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199908252325.TAA29534@defiant.mit.edu>
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Well, no one disputes that Netscape is a BPOS. (Is that a technical term?
:) And we can't really fix its inherent bugginess. I suppose we could
storm Netscape's offices but I don't think that'd do much good.
I should note, though, that 4.05 (and 3.01 for that matter) are both still
alive and running in infoagents, in case you'd rather stick with the tried
and true. 'netscape-4.05' or 'netscape-3.01' will do the trick.
-TOdd
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Larry Stone wrote:
> System name: defiant.mit.edu
> Type and version: IP32 8.2.19
> Display type: CRM
>
> What were you trying to do?
> Run NetScrape for more than 1 minute.
>
> What's wrong:
> NetScrape 4.61 is buggier than ever. Please
> browse the following sequence of URLs to make it crash hard.
>
> What should have happened:
> It should not have crashed.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>
> In general, I've noticed that the new Netscape is a _lot_ less
> reliable than the previous version (4.05), which was pretty bad itself.
> Often, it crashes suddenly when I bring up a page with an inline GIF.
> Nothing fancy, just a large-ish GIF. Usually this happens randomly and
> I just start a new one and curse Mozilla as a BPOS while waiting for that.
> Lately I found a reproducible path to a crash.
