Microsoft lays down the rules about 64-bit

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:43:13 GMT,
(The little lost angel) wrote:

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:24:24 GMT,
(George Macdonald) wrote:
minutes. Anyone still using NS6 is a masochist IMO. NS7 is EOL and has a
serious bug under Windows, which has been eliminated from Mozilla 1.4.1 and
1.5RCs.

NS7 EOL? You meaning Netscape is dropping it? What's the serious bug??

It's my understanding that AOL has disbanded the Netscape team except for
keeping on maybe one or two guys to handle the run-down. Mozilla is now
asking for "donations" to keep it alive, though they still have some income
from Sun, Redhat and much reduced income from AOL. From what I read there
is not much hope of there ever being a NS7.11 to correspond to Moz1.4.1.

The bug, which was in NS7.1 and Moz1.4 is documented he
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204374 - it's nasty and
affects other progs with blackened out icons... even the Systray will go
black eventually... just before the system hangs or crashes. It's
apparently due to caching of GDI resources, which basically violates Win32
API rules/guidelines and results in a heavy resource leak. Visit a page
with lots of pics and it will happen in minutes.

The current best Windows Mozilla now is the mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe
file available he
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.4.1/. Even 1.5RCn
appears to be going through some regression as they try to find a permanent
fix for the above bug.

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 00:09:05 GMT,
(George Macdonald) wrote:

The bug, which was in NS7.1 and Moz1.4 is documented he
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204374 - it's nasty and
affects other progs with blackened out icons... even the Systray will go
black eventually... just before the system hangs or crashes. It's
apparently due to caching of GDI resources, which basically violates Win32
API rules/guidelines and results in a heavy resource leak. Visit a page
with lots of pics and it will happen in minutes.

Ah, I've encountered this problem before, i.e. NS dies eventually
after browsing through them web forums with their plethora of pics and
avatars and signatures. Though I didn't realize it was THAT serious.

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:43:27 GMT,
(The little lost angel) wrote:

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 00:09:05 GMT,
(George Macdonald) wrote:

The bug, which was in NS7.1 and Moz1.4 is documented he
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204374 - it's nasty and
affects other progs with blackened out icons... even the Systray will go
black eventually... just before the system hangs or crashes. It's
apparently due to caching of GDI resources, which basically violates Win32
API rules/guidelines and results in a heavy resource leak. Visit a page
with lots of pics and it will happen in minutes.

Ah, I've encountered this problem before, i.e. NS dies eventually
after browsing through them web forums with their plethora of pics and
avatars and signatures. Though I didn't realize it was THAT serious.

Well I'd been using a patched Mozilla 1.4, the one mentioned in Comment
#181at the above site (unfortunately no longer available), with no problems
for several weeks. After installing and using the 1.4.1 version for a week
I got corruption (white-out) of toolbar icons in Free Agent 1.21, when I
visited a certain Web site but with no serious depletion of Windows
resources.:-( Could be a problem with Agent I suppose - I've upgraded to
Free Agent 1.93 and don't see the problem.... yet.

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??