Subj : Re: crashing
To   : DONNA RANSDELL
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Tue Jun 06 2000 05:18 am

-=> DONNA RANSDELL wrote to ALL <=-

 DR> We just installed Netscape Communicator 4 - does anyone have any
 DR> "fixes" to keep it from crashing all the time? General Protection
 DR> Faults keep coming up.

 DR> This is on a Win3.1 system, so please don't suggest an upgrade. Nothing
 DR> higher than 4 will run on our system. Our next choice is MS IE 4....

I've got Communicator 4.08 on my Win 3.1 system. I have optimised
the config.sys and autoexec.bat and have 20 Meg. RAM.
I've no trouble with crashes though I did with an earlier release 
of Communicator, 4.05  or .06 I think was screwy and caused me
trouble. Use the /noems switch on Himem in the
config.sys, have 16 or more Meg. RAM and you should be OK.
The -only- time I crash is when I hit a web site with some
bad HTML and that is relatively infrequent.
I use a later release of both smartdrv and himem.sys than
came with Windows and DOS 5.0 as well as a replacement
com driver for the modem and have modified windows\system.ini
considerably. Cybercom is the freeware comm driver.
If you've less than 16 Meg. memory I suggest the older Netscape 3.01
dial up trial version. Still banging away with this old
486 with no trouble.

 
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