[thelist] G4's freezing when certain sites are open

[Thien Luh]

on 18/6/02 3:14 pm, Chris George at chrisg at gsnet.com wrote:

> On 6/18/02 2:43 AM, "Roger Newbrook" <roger.newbrook at kmsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> has anyone had expereince of G4's freezing when certain websites are opened?
>> and if so, what was generally the problem? is it that Java isn't enabled or
>> something more serious?
>>
>> tia
>>
>> roger


I have the same experience, G4 and OS 8.6, and Chris is right, it is most
often caused by Java Applet, and some sites even cause the Mac to crash. And
I also having problem launching NS 6++ from my Mac, it just won't launch or
worst still, crash the machine.


Thien

>
> Hi Roger,
>
> I work on Apple computers daily (and nightly, as is the case lately) - I'm
> running IE 5.1 (5.2 just came out) and Mozilla 1.0 Final on a PowerMac G4
> under OS X and it's rock solid... I can't remember the last time IE
> crashed... But it _does_ happen occasionally... It'll just quit.  Which
> usually happens after some game playing on shockwave.com or equivalent site.
>
> BUT, if it's IE 5.1 (or less) or Netscape under anything PRE OS X, then I
> can relate to it crashing.  OS 8.6, 9.x etc. don't use memory like XP and OS
> X do.  You need to allocate chunks of memory in order for them to run, or
> run better.  If a browser is crapping out on some sites (usually with a Type
> 2 error), it's a memory problem.  Increase it's memory size and try again.
>
> But I've only ever encountered a freeze of the OS once because of IE, and
> that was 'cause of a java applet.  After that, I turned off allowing the
> Java VM to load, and everything was fine.  The Java VM for the Mac is
> notoriously bad.  Really bad.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris.
>
>