Well, I still think it is possible that whatever page you are going to is
trying to load something and not finding a needed plugin. I have not used
Netscape in quite a few years so I am no longer familiar with it at all. If
these are pages that you use to visit without error, is it possible they
have revised their pages? You might try posting the links you are getting
the errors at in here and asking someone who uses Netscape to try them out.
A re-install of Netscape certainly won't hurt anything. I know you've been
using Netscape for a long time, but you still might give some consideration
to Firefox. I think you'll find it is a lot like Netscape but less resource
intensive. It was built around Netscapes mozilla technology. Think of it
as the son of Netscape. You can look it over here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ and give it a test run. You do not
have to make it your default browser until you decide you want to use it.
Thunderbird (
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ) is the
companion email software and is very good.
--
Spider
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"kathleen shroyer" <> wrote in message
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> Hey, Spider-
> I guess I was not clear in my problem-there is nothing to 'open'. This
> pops up when I am just going from one page to another, like, when reading
> in Yahoo groups. Instead of going to the next page, Netscape box opens and
> asks what to do with this file??? There is no file to open, I just want to
> go to the next page, URL, whatever. I just cancel. I guess I could
> re-install the Netscape exe. and see what happens. Could this work to
> eleviate the box from opening when it's not needed? I haven't
> installed/downloaded any new programs, this just started happening! Geez.
> I have used Netscape browser for almost 6 years and have never had a
> problem. I appreciate your time in answering me.
> kathleen
>
> Spider wrote:
>
>> Kathleen,
>> My intial guess is that you are missing some sort of Netscape plugin.
>> Many different things like Real Time, Macromedia, and Flash will require
>> a browser plugin to open a page that contains them. What type of file
>> will not open? You can browse around here:
>> http://browser.netscape.com/nsb/help/default.jsp and see if you can find
>> an answer. I did recently read a blog about Netscape and it was not real
>> good. I'd link to it if I could remember who wrote it, but it was a
>> fairly well known blogger. Basically he said that Netscape is pretty
>> buggy at the moment although there was a lot he liked about it he was
>> constantly having to troubleshoot errors etc. He ended up using it for
>> about a week and went back to Firefox.
>>
>
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