[SunRescue] Re: [SPARCbook] Display problem with Netscape 4.73 under Solaris 2.6

[Hugo.van.der.Kooij at caiw.nl]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Hello,
>     I have installed Netscape Communicator 4.73 on my SPARCBook 3GX running
> Solaris 2.6, but I am having a problem - when I call up a web site, the initial screen
> appears fine, but if I scroll down, the display is jumbled.
> 
>     By jumbled I mean, for example, the lines of text that were previously covered up
> are now displaying a few times in succession,and sometimes over other lines. It
> is as if the CPU/display can not keep up with the scroll request and just tries it's best
> to "throw up" what it can.
> 
>     There must be a usable version on Netscape around for SPARC/Solaris, does
> anyone have any suggestions?

Ity seems that netscape 4.73 does have this behaviour if it is short on
memory. It does this on W95 as well if memory runs short.

Hugo.

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