netscape4.7

[Jim Herrmann]

Two words:  Try Galeon

On Wednesday 21 November 2001 01:59 pm, David Nicol wrote:
> Aldis A Tuck wrote:
> > I'm using netscape 6.2 I've never really used 4.7, i guess because I'm
> > always looking for the new stuff so that I'm more comfortable with Linux.
> > I recently installed mandrake 8.1 and chose not to install 4.7 because
> > too many of anything confuses me.  I really like netscape 6.2  though
> > even if it is kind of  slow.  Its just as slow in windows.
>
> what I would like to see, and KFM/Konqueror is not this, sadly, is a fully
> multiprocessed forking web browser that forks every time it tries to do
> anything and keeps all common information in some kind of scoreboard or
> does internal communication with named unix sockets.  Netscape 4.7 is the
> latest in the main stream netscape releases, but it has this awful habit
> of locking up while waiting for network time-outs.  Apparently whoever
> wrote the connect-to-remote-site piece did not bother to use non-blocking
> IO.  This would be fixed if every window was its own lightweight process
> that referred to the page cache system.  I don't think it would be too
> very tricky to create this beast if motivated:  you might start with
> the "grail" source code instead of Mozilla.  Grail is (was?) a netscape
> 3 clone written in python.
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