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From: medrecjm@crl.com (John Mosser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Netscape Crashes!
Date: 18 May 1996 21:43:42 -0700
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Thanva Khouvongsavanh (thanva@shoreland.com) wrote:
: ...---...  ...---... ...---...

: I am running FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek CD Installation.
: My machine is a P133, triton chipset, 32Meg, Stealth 2001 Series PCI
: with 2Meg DRAM, Intel Ethernet express, SoundBlaster 16. 
: I am running XF86_S3 and fvwm 1.24.
: I am crashing when I run netscape 2.02. I cannot see a definite pattern
: the crashes. But it appears to me that I would crash during an image
: update. 

I have 2.01 running successfully on a AIX machine, but on a SunOS 4.1.3 it
crashes - it is a known problem, and I think there's supposed to be a patch
for it, although I haven't tried the patch. Look around on Netscape's web
site - I think they do mention the problem..

-John