Re: Very Strange...trouble with NN4.7

At 03:36 PM 19/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Jeniffer, having seen this so many times I can't count..  it is probably=
 the
>video card / driver on her system.
>Find out the type of video card she has, and see is she is using the=
 correct
>driver for this card.
>I have had this over the years, because the ATI video card I had didnt'=
 like
>windows 98 much, and would do this constantly.  Bleeding text, and all=
 sorts
>of strange images.  Once they got the correct driver developed, I hardly=
 see
>it anymore, EXCEPT.. when my resources get low.  If I am working and my
>resources get low, I will see odd things.. or it won't show things at all..

I've seen this too on other systems with ATI cards (never had one) and on=20
my old system which had little ram and a very ancient Trident video=20
card.  Add to that the fact that NN 4.x is a known resource hog and has big=
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memory leaks and you have disasters like this waiting to happen.  Due to=20
the memory leaks, the problem sometimes creeps up after using the system=20
for a while as Nancy noticed too.  That happened to me a few times when NN=
=20
4.0 had just came out and I still believed it was an "upgrade" from NN 3...=
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Personally, I still wonder why one would prefer NN 4.x over any other=20
browser.  If you dislike IE or Microsoft, Mozilla 0.9.1 is a great browser=
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and NN 6.1 PR1 is out which is based on it.  Opera 5.11 is an awesome=20
browser as well and is the fastest of all.  There really is no reason to=20
keep using such a buggy piece of junk as NN 4.x nowadays...

St=E9phane Bergeron

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