Netscape not starting (was Re: [ILUG] [ot-ish] Another Reason Not To Use M$?)

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Someone posted a remedy to the CLUG list a while back for this:
Put an entry in /etc/hosts for your news and mail servers. Things should
start up much faster :)

Donncha.

Diarmaid O'Loughlin wrote:
> 
> Speaking of netscape, some times when I start it the bar at the bottom
> says "Reading file" and then nothing happens. Only the stop button appers
> and the hole program stops. I found if I deleted the .netscape dir that it
> fixs the problem but that's not good enought. I cant keep any book marks.
> I'm using 4.7 and I had the same problem with 4.6. What gives anyone?
>