Re: netscape hung
On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 09:40:38 CDT Timothy Phan (tphan@asl.dl.nec.com)
wrote:
> Everytime I bring up netscape, it comes up fine. Once I press
> a icon button, the netscape will no longer respond. Ever worse
> if I press any of the pulldown menu, it will hang up the whole
> system because the pulldown menu grab the mouse pointer. I must
> reboot..
It's trying to download http://home.netscape.com. For this it needs to resolve the hostname with gethostbyname() which is blocking.
It will eventually timeout and you'll get your netscape back. Then go to options and select None as homepage to get rid of this annoyance.
Phil.
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