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Browser performance on Windows 98 vs Windows NT

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dwalter

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Mar 27, 2001
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i am stuck with a strange problem viewing web pages on Windows 98. For some reason browsers(i.e 5, netscape4.7) on 98 crash/hangup/load partially for HTML pages that are above 400 kb. Although the text is displayed correctly, some dropdown menus stop appearing half way through the page, and also manytimes freezes all other applications until the browser is closed. The same page loads perfectly fine on Windows NT. Anyone familiar with such a thing, any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

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thanks for the reply, i tried IE 5.5 SP1 as well as IE 6 beta, but stuck with the same problem...
 
Sounds strange, but I have seen a virus program running in the background that would cause that. PC Cillin was the one I found to be a problem. Like you said the page wouldn't load fully and some graphics would not load. If you have recently installed one try turning it off before opening explorer. Also you can hit "ctrl-alt-del" and end task on everything but "explorer" and "systray" before opening IE and see if that helps. I could also just be a bad connection if you have a modem. Try connecting to another phone line in your home.
 
I have more specifics of the problem now, it clearly seems to be associated with HTML form SELECTION options on the page. I you try to have more than 200 different selection form elements then this problem occurs. Also strangley, this problem occurs only with "selection" and not with radio buttons which are also common type of form elements. You can easliy recreate this with some simple html form selections...
 
My question...are Windows 95 and NT on separate partitions on that machine in question or are they on the same partition?

If they're on the same partition the reason you're having the errors is they both use the Program Files directory for many things including shared files and browsers - which means you've got Win9x using (or trying to use) NT generation browsers, which gives us a viable explanation to your problem.

 
Thanks for the reply...., i tested this on seperate desktops one with NT and the other with 98. I also tested it on a solaris machine, the only problem seems to be with Win 98, i guess this sure has to do with one of the dll's thats common to all the browsers as all of them give the same exact problem...
 
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