[NTLUG:Discuss] Newsforge Article by Joe Barr

[Tom Adelstein]

greg at nas-inet.com wrote:
> Tom Adelstein wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> You might want to know that my Mozilla crashed on the site.  The 
>>> Mozilla I've got crashes on allot of sites.  I think it's a Java 
>>> issue, not positive though.
>>>
>>> Details:
>>>
>>> Mozilla 1.1
>>>
>>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
>>>
>>> Default Plugin
>>> Plugger 4.0
>>> Java(TM) Plug-in1.3.1_04
>>>
>>> I have a couple others but they shouldn't be an issue on most sites.
>>>
>>
>> If you crash on Newsforge, you may want to consider upgrading to 
>> Mozilla 1.4 or 1.5a.
>>
>> 1.1 is old and slow.
>>
>> If you don't have java, you might consider downing it and then 
>> creating a symbolic link in the .mozilla directory under plugins to 
>> the plugin in the jre directory. The plugin name is : 
>> libjavaplugin_oji.so
>>
>> Then you should see everything fine.
>>
> 
> I have Java 1.3.1, see above.
> 
> I'll give it a try from my other workstation which has a newer Mozilla 
> on it.  I just haven't gotten around to upgrading this workstation yet.
> 
I believe Mozilla 1.4 needs Java 1.4.3