Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 26730
Netscape stalls browsing the internet
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:18:52 EDT
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
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.
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.