[buug] Netscape crashes

Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:09:52 -0800


Quoting Michael Higashi (mhigashi@hooked.net):

> Could it also be due to borderline-bad hardware? I notice at the
> CoffeeNet, one system seems to hang in Netscape much more frequently 
> then other supposedly identical systems.

You're absolutely right.

Zeke, if you happen to have Netscape up most of the time, and suffer
crashes because of (say) a RAM defect, then you might wrongly blame
hardware-caused crashes on the software you happened to be using
at that time.

This might correlate in an especially misleading manner if it _is_ 
a RAM defect that Netscape happens to hit more than most applications
because it's larger in RAM than most.

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