Re: [TCLUG:16400] Old Netscape (was: Personal request)

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

> This makes me wonder - for about 99% of my surfing I use
> Netscape 3.02 Gold (for windows, unfortunately, still waiting
> for the family budget to stretch to cover a Linux-compliant
> modem)which seems to crash a lot less often than the 4.72
> version. Is the same true of the Un*x versions? Seems to
> me NS3.0/Un*x would eat a lot less RAM and disk space than
> the 4.72 version, and crash less often as well, no?

3.x was compiled under now aging libraries, will not run with current
libc and whatever else, and was rather flakey about memory management
even with libraries of its time... 3.x at least for linux has its own
problems...