[ale] browser recc's?

[Jim Kinney]

I've been having problems with 4.6 under kernel 2.2.11. When it dies, it
takes down the entire machine. Keyboard, mouse, AND NETWORKING. I can't
even ssh or telnet in to kill the process. Requires a cold reboot (ugh) to
recover. As this is going to be a web server, I can't keep rebooting it. I
uninstalled, reinstalled, redownloaded, repeated all of the above and
still Netscape dies. It's not dropping core so I have no diagnostics I can
do. Lynx works, but I miss the icon on slashdot :(

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Rob Butera wrote:

> 
> Hi folks.
> 
> Is it just me, or have recent versions of Netscape been hanging up
> a lot more than they used to.  It seems that both 4.5 and 4.61 lock
> up on a regular basis, even on pages without Java Applets (and even
> more on the pages that do have them).  I have been running on 2.2.5
> and 2.2.10 kernels, on a system that is (mostly) SUSE 6.1.
> 
> Can anyone reccomend another browser (maybe a Mozilla derivative)
> that is more stable?  If it matters at all, I am running the 128-bit
> encryption version.
> 
> For whatever it is worth, my wife works under NT all day and also has
> noticed more problems with the latest versions of Netscape (as compared to
> IE), to the point that she no longer uses Netscape.
> 
> Last time I looked at "other" browsers (2+ years ago), nothing really
> came close to NS and IE.   I suspect that things have changed, especially
> with the opening of the Mozilla source -- any reccomendations?
> 
> 
> Robert Butera, Assistant Professor       
> School of Electrical and Computer Engineering		
> Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 
> contact info --> http://www.ece.gatech.edu/users/rbutera/ 
>