[WEB4LIB] Netscape problem

[Jill Hobgood]

Peter, 

I've had this very thing happen to me numerous times.
It seems to be related to Java/Javascript in some 
way.  It happens to me a lot, because I tend to zip
around, and not always wait for stuff to load completely
before I go on to the next thing, or, more often, go
back to the previous page.

If you hit the "Back" button too quickly while loading a 
page using Java/Javascript (I honestly haven't tried to
analyze whether it's both, or what), you seem to leave the
browser still trying to load something it now cannot 
find.  Now that I think of it, this can happen when 
you interrupt just about any plug-in load.   

You can't click to go anywhere else, because it's
trying to finish.  But it can't.  You're toasted.  Typing
in a URL or even right-clicking to "Open link in new window"
will get you a new page, but the links on *that* page 
won't work, either.  You just need to bite the bullet, and
close the browser.  Since it still doesn't recognize that 
you've done anything, you then have to do a CTL-ALT-DEL, and 
click on the little orphan Netscape and End Task.  Then 
you'll be fine. No need to mess with the History.

It's kind of a pain, though.  I don't know any other fix.

Jill Hobgood

Reference/ILL Librarian
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN
jhobgood at saintmarys.edu

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Peter Jorgensen wrote:

> 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.