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.
I just showed your email to David my husband and he agreed with others
that it might be a hardware problem and to do a memtest. He says:
===
Dodgy hardware gets stress-tested by major applications like Mozilla,
so give it a checkup with memtest86.
It's *unlikely* to be a straight-out bad interaction between Mozilla
and Win98 - Win98 is a heavily-tested platform for Mozilla. It might
be Windows bitrot. But you probably don't want to wipe and reinstall
Windows just to test!
You should give Mozilla 1.7rc2 a go if you really want the integrated
suite, or try Firefox (0.8 or a recent nightly) for just the browser,
and see how that goes.
===
HTH :-)
Oh, and FWIW, I am running both Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.6 (which
when running together are slightly larger than the Mozilla suite, but
it's personal taste) on a TP 560X running Win98SE fully patched by
Microsoft critical updates with 96 meg of RAM and have no problems.
Liz
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