[WEB4LIB] Netscape problem

[John Williams]

Exactly same thing was happening to me, using WinNT SP4, with Communicator
4.61. I have now bitten the bullet and switched to IE5.

John Williams
Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center


At 09:29 AM 11/23/99 -0800, 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.
>
>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?
>
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