RE: tlug: Problems with Netscape

[Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>]

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tlug note from Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
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On 02-Jun-97 Alan B. Stone wrote:
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>tlug note from "Alan B. Stone" <stoneab@example.com>
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>I've been having problems with Netscape Gold 3.01.  I have
>installed all the files correctly.  The problem...when I enter
>certain pages on the web, it begins to load and then Netscape
>terminates as if I issued a kill statement. 

Sounds to me like you're encountering a java applet which is
crashing Netscape. There's a problem with recent versions of
libc. Craig posted a work-around some months ago:

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jim:/usr/local/lib/netscape$ ls -l
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Oct 28  1996 libc.so.5
-> /lib/libc.so.5.0.9*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          117 Oct 28  1996
netscape.sh*
jim:/usr/local/lib/netscape$ cat netscape.sh
#!/bin/sh
libdir=/usr/local/lib/netscape
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$libdir; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec /hdd/netscape/netscape
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Of course your paths may be different. This solved the problem
for me with 3.0 (I still do a lot of surfing with 2.02 - it's
much more stable.)

HTH

Jim S.

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Sent by: Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
On: 02-Jun-97 at: 22:41:22 JST
http://www1.harenet.or.jp/~schweiz/
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