Netscape problem

[Peter Jorgensen]

Has anyone had a problem with Netscape Communicator 4.x suddenly refusing 
to respond to mouse clicks on hyperlinks?  We frequently have this problem 
on a number of our computers, both public and staff PCs, some using 
Windows 95 and some using Windows 98.  Everything will be going along 
fine, and then suddenly clicking on hyperlinks does nothing, although 
it's still possible to enter URLs in the address bar and jump to them 
that way.  Exiting and restarting Netscape does not clear up the problem 
-- we have to restart Windows.

I *did* find something in the archive referring to a problem like this, 
with a follow-up suggesting that the problem was a corrupt history file 
and that reducing the number of days before the pages in history expire 
might reduce the problem.  But in our case the computer that has this happen 
the least has the *longest* period before the history expires.  Any other 
suggestions?

Peter Jorgensen
Reference Department, Lincoln City Libraries
Lincoln, Nebraska
peterj at rand.lcl.lib.ne.us