Ed Keith commented,
>>I remember the times when Mr. Valev used to bother this group with his
>ill-starred musings, and I would be interested in looking at the web pages you
>cite below. Unfortunately, when I try to access them, they both crash my
>Netscape browser. I'm not sure why, and it isn't really a big deal, but I
>thought you might like to know in case the problem is at your end. Thanks.
>Sorry about this. It is a known bug in Netscape 4.X, unfortunately, and
given that Netscape has virtually abandoned the struggle it will probably
never be fixed. Netscape 3.X or earlier is OK, and Netscape 6 is apparently
OK as well, though I haven't checked it out too thoroughly as there were
too many other things I disliked about it, so I dumped it not long after
installing it. I certainly wouldn't suggest you adjust your browser just to
look at my page (it isn't THAT great, despite Mr Valev's recommendation),
but with increasing use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) on the web there
are likely to be more and more sites that crash Netscape if you don't. What
you need to do is the following:
Select "Preferences*" in the "Modify*" menu
Select "Advanced*" (near the bottom of the dialogue box)
Uncheck "Activate style sheets*" (fifth item in the dialogue box)
Select "OK"
(*As my Netscape is in French I've translated back to English, so the
wording may not correspond exactly with what yours says).
As I say, you won't want to do this just to look at my page, but it should
help with a lot of other sites as well. It shouldn't do any harm: when
Netscape 4.X does manage to interpret CSS without crashing it typically
does such an awful job of it that you're better off without.
athel
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