[ltp] Netscape-problems

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 11 April 2001 08:46, Ken Firestone wrote:

>   > A friend of mine has TP A20p, Suse7.0, XFree 4.x, KDE1.x installed
>   >
>   > Everthings works fine except netscape v4.75. You can follow links on a
>   > website, but as soon you try to click with the mouse in the ULR-field,
>   > netscape goes busted.
>
>   I had the same problem but with SuSE 7.1 and Netscape 4.76 and 4.77
>   everything seems to work fine. I'm using gnome, though. And I might add
>   that I haven't got problems on my laptop under Debian but that's gnome as
>   well. Do I see a pattern emerge here?
>
>   Does anyone know if KDE/Qt might interfere here?
> I remember a similar problem with my TP 240. I installed a netscape
> from netscape downloads, in /usr/local/netscape I think, and that
> fixed the problem.
>
> If I used the old netscape from suse the problem came back.

   I doubt it.  Many many people use Netscape on KDE desktops and don't 
experience this problem.  Netscape is somewhat easy to freeze like this 
though.  I've seen it  happen on HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and various Linux 
desktops and wm's.

-- 

George Staikos


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