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Re: Netscape 2.0b2 (was JPEG Transmogrifier now at 1.0b1)

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From: Lanny Chambers
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <rekoil-1211951240130001@rekoil.charm.net>, rekoil@charm.net
(Chris Woodfield) wrote:

> Excuse me, but I thought that bug-fixing is the entire purpose of a beta
> program. Additionally, I have not noticed the memory leak that the post
> refers to; I've noticed some annoying bugs (the N button doesn't do
> anything, the newsreader is excrutiatingly slow, Java doesn't work, and
> it's incompatible with the Aaron extension, among other things), but I'm
> not bitching, because I know it's a beta, and I know that betas have bugs.
> If they didn't, they wouldn't be betas. 

Hmmm...I see the leak--big time--but have no trouble with Aaron 1.1.2.
(6100, 7.5.1). Wonder if Netscape 2.0b2 + Aaron = leak?

Most of the other limitations are in the release notes, anyway, so they
shouldn't be any surprise. I never see the N button anyhow, since I turn
all that junk off to conserve real estate.

Lanny Chambers (creative@inlink.com)
Creative Services, St. Louis, USA
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From: creative@inlink.com (Lanny Chambers)
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b2 (was JPEG Transmogrifier now at 1.0b1)
Date: 1995/11/14
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