Netscape Freezes on the Mac

Susan Oates (oates@cybercomm.net)
Sat, 6 Jul 1996 11:45:53 EDT

Incidentally, after posting my reply to Micaela's message yesterday, my
Netscape 2.01 for Mac suffered at least five freezes, and I had to restart
the machine every time. Type 11 appeared some of the time but not all of
it. It froze up the first time yesterday while I was working with a link
and wouldn't work with that link once I got Netscape running again - kept
freezing up, even after clearing the cache. I finally downloaded 2.02 to
try.

The "known incompatabilities" file that comes with 2.02 includes mention of
Open Transport. Check it to see if there's relevance to your setup.

Susan

>On 6/25, Micaela Doyle wrote:
>>>I am the network manager for a school lab of 6100s & 7100s.As part of a
>>>summer maintenance program, I recently reformatted all the drives using FWB
>>>Hard Disk Tool Kit (v 1.8). After installing 7.5.3 (7.5 Update 2.0), I
>>>switched all the machines to OpenTransport. ( With System 7.5 we were using
>>>Mac TCP.) I then reinstalled our usual programs, HyperStudio 3.07n.,
>>>ClarisWorks, Netscape 2.2, etc.
>>>We have been having conatant freezes ever since. The freezes occur most
>>>often in Netscape. we have also gotten somee "Type 11" errors.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know of any "known" incompatibilities that would figure into
>>>the configuration mentioned above? I'm not exactly certain where to begin
>>>to trouble shoot this problem. My hunch is that it has to do with
>>>OpenTransport.
>
>I'm off for the summer but went to school on Friday. There was an envelope
>in my mailbox from Apple with a disk inside to fix freezes on some of the
>Power Mac series, not 6100s, however. Call Apple, 1-800-SOS-APPL, to find
>out about that disk to see if it's relevant to the rest of your setup. (I
>guess we're on their mailing list because I have one 5300 that turns blue
>every so often, and it's scheduled to be fixed when the appropriate part
>comes in.)
>
>I, too, have experienced those Netscape freezes on my 6100s at school and
>at home, and I don't know what the solution is either. My son says the
>problem is likely to be with the Mac software rather than Netscape. I
>wonder if this is where Conflict Catcher could be useful in terms of
>monitoring extensions. Otherwise, it's turning off all extensions and
>enabling one at a time till the problem arises. :(
>
>Susan

Susan L. Oates <oates@cybercomm.net>

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