From: Stanislav Meduna <stano@trillian.eunet.sk> Subject: Re: Netscape buggy, kernel OK - some test results To: doogie@debian.org (Adam Heath) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:09:31 +0100 (CET) > I am responsible for the netscape packages in debian. I have one package that > is depended on by all versions of netscape in debian. I can include this > wrapper, upload the small change, notify everyone when they upgrade about the > change, and wait for the responses. Thank you for the initiative. There is one known problem with the patch - after a longer time (and possibly triggered by some more or less probable circumstances) the Netscape stops accepting keystrokes and clicks on the links. The only possibility is to exit and then the browser is not ended correctly - it leaves lock file behind etc. So I wouldn't recommend this patch as a general solution (nor do I plan to further do the detective work - my primary goal was to isolate the problem and the patch is actually a side-effect :-)). If you want to include it, I have no problem with it, but please, advise the users that although it can help, they are known problems and they must decide, what is better (for me the benefit is better than the problems, for others this can vary). It should not be a default. I have sent the bug report with the analysis to Netscape - I hope that the problem will be corrected in the next version (will there be any of the 4.x serie?). The thread became off-topic for linux-kernel - is there some netscape users mailing list? Regards -- Stano - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/