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From: Jerry Hicks <Jerry_Hicks@bigfoot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.0b3, java, on FreeBSD?
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:41:03 -0400
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Tom Fischer wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is anyone successfully running Netscape Communicator 4 PR3 with java
> enabled on FreeBSD 2.1?  If I enable java, it crashes everytime
> it tries to start up a java application (javascript seems to work
> with no problem).
> 
> I'm using the communicator-v40b3-export.x86-unknown-bsd.tar.gz version,
> not the communicator-v40b3-export.x86-unknown-bsd2.tar.gz.
> 
> With java disabled, most things seem to work just fine...
> 
> thanks in advance for any info...
> 
> tom
> 
> tfischer@rain.fr

I had the same problem, had to rebuild the X11 font directory.

Can't remember the exact steps, but go to http://www.dejanews.com/ and
search for "FreeBSD AND Netscape".

Mine works great now.

Jerry_Hicks@bigfoot.com