[thelist] Netscape Communicator memory usage (was: Dreamweaver vs. OS9)

[Peggy Daniels]

Hi list,

Marlene's experience with Communicator has me wondering... has anyone else 
had any problems with system memory usage while running Communicator?  A few 
months ago I got a new pc at work (windows98), and all was well until I 
installed Netscape Communicator 4.74.  Shortly after that, the machine 
started having all kinds of memory problems:  frequent crashes and lockups, 
extremely slow response time, graphical icons not displaying properly or at 
all, etc.  Although this stuff could be caused by any number of things, I'm 
thinking it was Communicator.  Mostly because the situation improved after I 
uninstalled.

So I was just wondering, since I'm primarily an MSIE user, if there's 
something I don't know about Communicator.  It's a long shot but, anyone 
have any comments on this?  I am not asking you all to diagnose my pc's 
performance issues :) just looking for any experiences of this type among 
Netscape users.  Although this probably would have come out by now if it is 
a common problem, thought I'd put the question out there anyway.

Thanks,
Peggy Daniels
Web Designer, Aston IT Group North America
pkd at astonit-us.com  pegdaniels at hotmail.com


----Original Message Follows----
From: Marlene Bruce <marlene.bruce at colemandesign.com>
<snip>
Well, I discovered the culprit after I re-initialized the hard drive and
started reinstalling stuff. You'd never guess, it was Netscape Communicator 
4.61.
</snip>



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