Netscape 6.1/RedHat 7.1 hangs

[stevethom]

I have installed Netscape 6.1 on two machines thus far, both of which are running RedHat 7.1 (without any patches or updates). In both cases, Netscape will hang the X-windows session after a short time, necessitating a ctrl-alt-backspace to close KDE (my default environment, also unpatched).

Is there anyplace I can get some troubleshooting help for this issue? Netscape seems to say very little. I have to assume there is some kind of help forum out here somewhere...

Perhaps I am wasting my time, but web browsing in Linux is not nearly as pleasant as it is in Windows, and this browser seems to close the gap considerably. I would really like to make it work, especially the email client. I use multiple email addresses, and my server supports IMAP. This part has been fantastic, though it hangs when the browser does.

Restarting X is embarrassing... I'm trying to migrate to Linux in my office, and I would like to offer it as an option for my clients. This is one area that doesn't compare - but seemingly should.

TIA,

Steve

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Why not try opera for linux - It is my personal preferred browser and has addictive features like multiple tabbed pages within a single window. See -->

http://www.opera.com/download/download.cgi?id=168

.

For Redhat 7.x onwards mozilla itself is the preferred browser and netscape is no longer provided. Netscape 6 is, of course, based on mozilla with a few commercial tweaks and it could be that you've got a conflict if both mozilla and netscape 6.x are installed. If it were me I'd probably dump the nestcape and install mozilla.

Rgds

 

[marsd]

Mozilla is nice but it doesn't feel very safe to me->
when my browser starts caching things I can't remember
that I entered ,coughing up cookie info, and completing
my sentences for me, I feel like I am being fattened for the slaughter.;-)
Anyway you could check freshmeat and see what they have.
Netscape 4.x is pretty bad; konqueror seems very nice to me,
but I have been told that it needs work-> for the limited things I do with it, it seems fine.