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  On 12 June around 8 pm local time I had bad experience with a page
from Google.  The page pointing to CDC, the publisher of BA/2, came up
OK for a few moments but then before the "document done" message came up
Netscape crashed with the message:
Access violation at 1e968ac8 by PMMerge 0004:00138ac8.

  Because Netscape has occasionally failed like this before I tried
accessing the page again.  This time the page came up similarly but
before loading was complete *OS/2* crashed with a Trap D at
0168:fff1f322-000e:c322.

 After restarting (twice because the WPS hung during the 1st restart)
and trying again the loading failed again with the message:
Access violation 1d4e59ef by Mozilla 0001:000059ef

  Again I retried and this time Netscape crashed but went zombie.  It
did not fully close, it could not be restarted and  further it could not
killed from Ctrl - "Swtich to another application" which showed the
process was still running even though Windows list did not have it
listed.  Therefore another restart was necessary.

  Accessing the same page from a Windows machine (via LAN thru Injoy)
with Netscape 4.76 brought the page up OK and I was able to complete my
session with the CDC site.

  Netscape 4.61 is steadily getting more and more unsatisfactory.  For
example it ignores CSS code completely inside table constucts.  Other
CSS problems require time consuming work arounds.  Probably it's these
shortcomings that has prompted banks like St George to refuse to work
with Netscape versions below 4.74 which unfortunately includes OS/2's
Netscape 4.61 creating the issue with St George that came up a few weeks
ago in aus.computers.os2.

  When is IBM going to move Netscape on?

Victor Bien
VCB Computing Alternatives (R)
http://sydney.dialix.com.au/~vcbien/