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Sir:
I do expect one more release of Netscape 4.61 before Warpzilla goes GA
this fall, but it may be a reserved feature.  I base this opinion upon
the testcase version that been floating around.  IBM India seems almost
finished with the bug fixing.
Bill

"David T. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Victor Bien wrote:
> >
> >   On 12 June around 8 pm local time I had bad experience with a page
> > from Google.  The page pointing to CDC, the publisher of BA/2, came up
> > OK for a few moments but then before the "document done" message came up
> > Netscape crashed with the message:
> > Access violation at 1e968ac8 by PMMerge 0004:00138ac8.
> >
> >   Because Netscape has occasionally failed like this before I tried
> > accessing the page again.  This time the page came up similarly but
> > before loading was complete *OS/2* crashed with a Trap D at
> > 0168:fff1f322-000e:c322.
> >
> >  After restarting (twice because the WPS hung during the 1st restart)
> > and trying again the loading failed again with the message:
> > Access violation 1d4e59ef by Mozilla 0001:000059ef
> >
> >   Again I retried and this time Netscape crashed but went zombie.  It
> > did not fully close, it could not be restarted and  further it could not
> > killed from Ctrl - "Swtich to another application" which showed the
> > process was still running even though Windows list did not have it
> > listed.  Therefore another restart was necessary.
> >
> >   Accessing the same page from a Windows machine (via LAN thru Injoy)
> > with Netscape 4.76 brought the page up OK and I was able to complete my
> > session with the CDC site.
> >
> >   Netscape 4.61 is steadily getting more and more unsatisfactory.  For
> > example it ignores CSS code completely inside table constucts.  Other
> > CSS problems require time consuming work arounds.  Probably it's these
> > shortcomings that has prompted banks like St George to refuse to work
> > with Netscape versions below 4.74 which unfortunately includes OS/2's
> > Netscape 4.61 creating the issue with St George that came up a few weeks
> > ago in aus.computers.os2.
> >
> >   When is IBM going to move Netscape on?
> 
> Have you tried IBM's newest version of Warpzilla?  It's a 15MB download
> at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.1/mozilla-i386-pcos2-vacpp-0_9_1.zip
> 
> Unzip it and click on the executable icon.
> 
> That is the direction IBM is moving in.  There does not seem to be much
> point in expending any more resources for updating Netscape v4.61.