VNC and finance.yahoo.com -> locks up browser

[Danny Horne]

----- Original Message -----
From: "EdHunter" <edhunter "at" optonline.net>
To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 3:57 PM
Subject: VNC and finance.yahoo.com -> locks up browser


> Whenever I use vnc to access a browser on the linux server (Konquerer or
> Netscape) and go to finance.yahoo.com, the browser (on the server)
> freezes.
>
> This happens when using either the Windows VNC client and a Windows
> browser as a vnc client.  The vnc server is on Linux Mandrake 8.0 and
> 8.1.
>
> When I run the browser from a local linux console, it works fine.  The
> only problem is when running via vnc.
>
I've just tried http://finance.yahoo.com via VNC & Konquerer & had no
problems.
My setup is -

Server:
FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
X-Server version 3.3.3.2
KDE Version 2.2.1
Konquerer version 2.2.1
Not sure of VNC server version, but very recent

Client:
Windows 98SE
VNC client version 3.3.3r9
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, mail majordomo "at" uk.research.att.com with the line:
'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY
See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------