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>I've tried shutting off virtual memory and clearing the disk cache on the
>machines, but this doesn't seem to be effective enough. We have also tried
>reinstalling the system on one Mac, but it also is having problems (seems
>to crash and get error message 11 whenever we start up Netscape after
>running another program).
>
>Any ideas? Suggestions?

There has been quite a bit of complaint/discussion on this topic in the
comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac newsgroup.  It seems that Netscape will
lock up some models of Macs and not others.  One of the fixes that has been
suggested is to run with the cache turned off.  This will slow down repeat
display of pages already viewed, because data will have to be downloaded
again.

The other fix, which I haven't tried, because I abandoned NS for Internet
Explorer before seeing this, is to not hit the Stop Button, or hit it as
infrequently as possible.  Apparently, interrupting a process like
downloading confuses the Mac OS.  I don't know all the specifics, but the
result is supposed to be the b-tree problems that we have all seen.

I will probably try this with one of the Macs in our lab, just to see
whether it works.  Internet Explorer gives me no problems, so I continue to
use it.

John
chandler@lamar.ColoState.EDU