Re: Netscape on non-PowerPC Macs

Ken Rohrer (kenroar@in.net)
Tue, 5 Mar 1996 23:50:42 EST

>My problem: I am wondering how Netscape 2.0 performs on non-PowerPC Macs.
>I've seen it on 5200/75 LCs (the machines at Crossroads) and on a Power100,
>Power120, and Power132 (my machines). I've never seen Netscape 2.0 run on
>68K Macs, tho. Is there much of a difference? How great is the speed
>increase? Is there an increase in stability? (I've found Netscape to be the
>most buggy, crash-prone program I've ever seen, even with [a] Netscape
>Defrost, [b] 15 MB of RAM allocated to it, and [c] Network Connections
>reduced to 2).
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I have Netscape 2.0 on a Centris 610CD with 8 mgs. of RAM (16 w/ RAM
Doubler). I found beta 5 to be much less buggier than the final version.
The basic difference I see between the Power PC and 68000 version is the
speed when you click on the back and forward button. The 68k version takes
between 4-10 seconds to respond when you click on these buttons, the native
version takes much less time.

Right now, the bugs I encounter w/ the 68k Netscape is that it will
suddenly quit (the old type 1 error) without notifying me it is low on
memory. It also rarely flushes the cache by itself.

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