Netscape crashing -- a lot.

["Craig McPherson" <craig@laceyonline.com>]

I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, 
because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even 
more often than it crashes under Windows.

Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing 
with a "bus error."  This usually happens when I close a Netscape 
window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a 
Netscape window), which is painful because I have to either live with 
an ever-growing number of pop-up ads or risk a crash.  Netscape 
also crashes when I run very low on virtual memory, with the same 
error.

THE SCENARIO:

P2 233, 64MB RAM, 128MB swap
Debian potato (though the behavior was the same when I was still 
using slink)
XFree86 3.3.3 using the Mach64 server (latest versions)
Netscape 4.6, dynamically-linked (IIRC) motif.
Have tried many different window managers, Gnome, and KDE, 
behavior is the same with all of them.

If I start Netscape from an xterm, the error looks something like:

<pid> bus error      netscape

Something of the sort.  Any ideas?

Are any of the earier versions of Netscape more stable than 4.6?  
I'm willing to use whatever is stable.  I haven't yet tried earlier 
Netscapes.

Thanks for any help.