[NCLUG] Netscape Instability

[Quent]

Those hangs are just from the time it takes to report back to central
headquarters about who is going where :-)

Uh, not really...
   could be though;
       they wouldn't really do that, would they?

		Quent

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:30:28PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:05:03PM -0700, adj at ccltd.com wrote:
> >(which will sleep) and goes off to do other stuff until dns-helper has
> >a response.  squid (web caching software) uses a similar architecture.
> 
> Yeah, except that squid's works.  ;-)  It seems like the entire Netscape
> will hang during a connection attempt -- perhaps it's not caused by
> the DNS lookup but instead by something else,  But it sure seems to
> hang up the entire thing something.
> 
> >Javascript hasn't caused me too many browser lock up type problems
> >aside from the odd infinite loop in the javascript itself.  And
> >Netscape's CSS support is implemented in Javascript.
> 
> I hate those sites that pop up new browser window.  Gak.
> 
> >Nope, nothing obvious.  Web browsers all seem to suck.  Netscape has
> >some nasty memory leaks in it, too.  Though Mozilla's nice enough that
> >I've been using it almost exclusively at home for the past few months.
> 
> Yeah, though I haven't had as many memory leak problems with
> netscape in the last few months...  It's probably fixed.
> 
> Sean
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