[WEB4LIB] Netscape problem

[François Lapelerie]

>Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:51:05 +0100
>To: peterj at rand.lcl.lib.ne.us
>From: François Lapelerie <lapeleri at voltaire.timone.univ-mrs.fr>
>Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Netscape problem
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>Same thing very often with Netscape 4.5 on a Mac G3 (350mhz): the only
>thing to to is restart the computer. Very boring...
>Move to IE, all is alaways doing well and runing good.
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>>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.
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>>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
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Francois Lapelerie
Universite de la Mediterranee
Faculte des sciences de Luminy
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Email: lapeleri at voltaire.timone.univ-mrs.fr