netscape cache and netscape freeze

[TMGB]

After reading my previous reply I could see how it could be misleading
and misunderstood.  My intention was to point out that the cache was the
problem whether it was trying to load java,jpg, text or whatever.  It
appears that the file in the cache was corrupt.  So, upon rerunning
netscape, the browser wanted to load a local cache copy of a file(which
is corrupt) and this would cause the browser to continuously crash until
the cache was manually totally deleted.  If you use any browser and set
any cache at all you can still fall across this type of incident.  If
you rerun the browser immediatly after a crash not even Navigator 3.04
has had time to clean up the cache that soon.  Please correct me if I'm
wrong.

Thomas

Susan Persak wrote:

> Others have pointed to javascript as the culprit, and this may be
> true,
> but I had similar problems with ver. 3.01 because the cache was full.
> Get ver. 3.04, which solves the problem by automatically cleaning its
> cache (from time to time you'll see a message "cleaning cache."
>
> Miriam Bobkoff wrote:
> >
> > I have a PC running Netscape 3.01.  It froze in the middle of
> visiting a
> > site. Each time I rebooted thereafter, Netscape would freeze on the
> first
> > or second click.
> >
> > Assuming the .exe file must be damaged, I moved in a fresh copy that
> I
> > happened to have handy (i.e., did not reinstall the whole program).
> It
> > froze on the first click again. So I rebooted yet again, and cleared
> the
> > cache. Some files remained uncleared, so I deleted those manually.
> >
> > This seemed to cure the problem. Here is the question: can something
> in the
> > cache interfere with the running of the program, or is this a false
> > diagnosis?
> >
> > If it is possible, would someone please explain what might have
> happened.
> > My picture of how things work does not include this possibility.
> >
> > Miriam Bobkoff
> > Santa Fe Public Library
> > 145 Washington Avenue
> > Santa Fe, NM 87505
> > phone (505) 984-6832      fax   (505) 984-6676
> >   mbobkoff at ci.santa-fe.nm.us