[NCLUG] Netscape Instability
Sean Reifschneider
jafo at tummy.com
Mon Nov 20 16:30:28 MST 2000
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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