[18411] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Oct 13 17:59:36 2000
Message-Id: <200010132159.RAA02249@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:51:40 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:59:33 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> On my system running Athena 8.4.11 under Red Hat, Netscape reliably
> crashes when visiting certain websites. The latest example is the
> Adobe website, www.adobe.com. The page starts to load, then
> Netscape abruptly crashes. Is there a better web browser out there
> for Linux?
I usually fall back on Mozilla. It's not available on Athena to my
knowledge, so I download linux binaries from www.mozilla.org.
Installing it is fairly easy; you get the tarfile, unpack it under
something like /usr/local/mozilla, and run it as
/usr/local/mozilla/package/mozilla. (It will spew a bunch of crud
into that xterm, so don't expect to be able to use that xterm for
normal work after running mozilla unless you redirect stdout and
stderr to /dev/null.)
I generally have to go back to netscape when I want to look at PDF
files or use a page which requires Java or SSL. (Hooking up acroread
is probably just a matter of configuration, but I'm lazy.)
I couldn't get the latest milestone (M18) to start, but M17 worked
okay for me, and is still available on their web site.
