On Tuesday 25 May 2004 15:45, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 15:36:03 +0100, Liz Gerard wrote:
> >Jeffrey, my husband is involved with the Mozilla community, I will
> >forward your email on to him. What OS are you running it on? And is it
> >the final release of 1.6 and not a release candidate or nightly build?
>
> Running on Win98SE. Mozilla self-reports as
> Mozilla 1.6
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
>
> It freezes the system when I have 3-4 other programs loaded but
> not running, and when I hit enter after inputting a URL; the freeze
> occurs with an hourglass indicating it tried to request a page.
> If I hit C-A-D, Windows reports Mozilla not responding.
>
> I have plenty of resources according to Resource Monitor and 392
> mb of RAM.
> Thanks Liz!
>
> Jeffrey Race
As Liz says, make sure you have the official version of 1.6 and not
a release candidate. If you have the stock 1.6, you can do some
experimentation. Try Mozilla 1.7 RC2, and find mozilla-firefox.
Firefox is a browser-only version of Mozilla, missing the kitchen
sink (and news, email, etc). You might want to get the memtest86
program and run that for a while. I have never heard of Mozilla
freezing on a Windows machine before, that didn't have bad
memory, so check that out. Its not impossible to have bad
memory that only clobbers some programs.
I think someone might have mentioned Opera. The slightly older
6.x versions work very well on older hardware. Version 7.5 seems
to be more of a pig, but probably still less so than IE.
--STeve Andre'
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