Re: Thinkpads and Netscape

["Robert George" <george@holmes.cs.nps.navy.mil>]

On Jul 19, 11:50am, Don Whiteside wrote:
> Subject: Re: Thinkpads and Netscape
> On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, Gary E. Moore wrote:
>
> > I've run into a problem using a 755CD and the Netscape Internet WWW
browser.
> > Netscape 1.1N includes a built in .au player.  Unfortunately, while running
> > netscape and attempting to play an .au file, the whole system freezes.  The
> > Netscape technical support folks claim it must be a sound card problem.
> >
> > Anyone had a similiar problem or possibly a fix for this?
>
>   I have had bad luck with the Netscape sound player as a whole,
> including on my 750. I advise just junking it and using the windows sound
> recorder or (better yet) win-play-any (wplany is the file name, I think).
> You can find it off a link on Netscape's home pages.
>   I think the Netscape sound player is just junk and it has nothing to do
> with the Thinkpad. I also think it was a stupid addition - use freaking
> OLE or DDE or something, quit cluttering up my hard drive with duplicate
> utilities! If they wanted to just make it easier for newbies, they could
> have had the default association be with the sound recorder.

If you go into the newsgroup reader mode in Netscape 1.1N, there are several
newsgroups related to Netscape.  When Netscape 1.1N first came out, there were
a tremendous number of bugs including, yes, Netscape freezing while using the
.au player.

Robert