Bug 26730 - Netscape stalls browsing the internet
Summary: Netscape stalls browsing the internet
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: netscape
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-08 21:37 UTC by Peter Walker
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-02-08 21:37:24 UTC
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Description Peter Walker 2001-02-08 21:37:20 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)


Netscape stalls whenever I browse the internet.  I cannot get it back 
without killing it, which is no point as it still stalls.  This is not a 
DNS problem!  I have to boot windows to browse the Internet!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start the ppp to get onto the internet
2.start netscape
3.enter any URL including www.redhat.com
	voila!

Actual Results:  The browser started to load the page at a dismal 10 bytes 
throughput and then it froze and never recovered!

Expected Results:  The browser displays the page and keeps on working 
there after!

My computer has dual PIII 500Mhz cpu's with 384Mb ram and a NVidia TNT2 
with 32Mb ram running Red Hat 7.0

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-08 21:40:42 UTC
There is very little we can do about problems inside netscape's code, as we
don't have access to it.

You can try reporting this to netscape at:
http://help.netscape.com/forms/bug-client.html

or possibly try using a different browser like Mozilla or Konqueror.

Comment 2 Peter Walker 2001-02-09 14:05:26 UTC
I am now not so sure that it is a Netscape problem.  It seems that whenever I 
do anything throuhg the PPP connection that involves moving large amounts of 
data I get a freeze on the PPP connection.  The only thing that I can do to get 
around this is to kill pppd and restart the connection.


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