Susan
Nancy Jentzsch <jentzsch@csn.net> wrote:
>I don't know whether this will help, but.... First be sure to get the most
>recent version of Netscape 2.x (I think it is 2.2), then on any of the big
>ftp sites (Info-Mac, UMich, etc.) you will find an extension called
>Netscape Defrost. This will 'unfreeze' Netscape when it does freeze.
>Evidently the problem is in the programming done by Netscape's programmers.
>
>Conflict Catcher is an enormous help in finding those extension conflicts,
>but in case my experience will help someone else....I'd like to share my
>recent experience with Netscape 3.0b4 (the newest beta release).
>
>I had downloaded and installed this version of Netscape. As an
>obsessive/compulsive when it comes to computers, I also downloaded all the
>"Plug-ins" I could find. Netscape ran fine on the first 'go-round'. If I
>tried to restart it after that, it abruptly quit when reading the
>Preferences file. If I trashed the Netscape Preferences, it would start up
>just find. I ran Conflict Catcher, but no matter what was on/off the
>problem remained. I finally started testing the Plug-ins one at a time and
>found that I had unwittingly put a "Power-Mac only" plug-in in the folder
>(I am on a Quadra 660AV). That solved the problem. The moral of the story
>is to check plug-ins as well as extensions....Conflict Catcher doesn't deal
>with these. There is a new shareware application called Plug-in Manager
>that does much the same job as the Extension Manager does for extensions!
Susan L. Oates <oates@cybercomm.net>
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