for what it's worth after having massive problems with netscape being stable after my upgrade to communicator 4.6 i downloaded the old debian 451 packages from a slow to update debian mirror and it's working perfectly.
here's my setup, i hope it helps someone: heyzeus(larry)> dpkg -l | egrep "netsc|communi|libc" ii communicator-ba 4.51-1 Communicator base support for version 4.51 ii communicator-ne 4.51-1 Communicator online help for version 4.51 ii communicator-sm 4.51-1 Netscape Communicator 4.51 (static Motif) ii communicator-sp 4.51-1 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software ii navigator-base- 4.51-1 Navigator base support for version 4.51 ii navigator-nethe 4.51-1 Navigator online help for version 4.51 ii navigator-smoti 4.51-1 Netscape Navigator 4.51 (static Motif) ii netscape-base-4 13 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software ii netscape-base-4 4.51-1 4.51 base support for netscape ii netscape-java-4 4.51-1 Netscape Java support for version 4.51 ii netscape-smotif 4.51-1 This is a pseudo package that installs a ii libc5 5.4.46-3 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time ii libc5-altdev 5.4.46-3 The Linux C library version 5 ii libc6 2.1.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and ii libc6-dev 2.1.1-5 GNU C Library: Development libraries and and the site i used to download them was: ftp://ftp.maisel.int-evry.fr/pub/distrib/debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/web/ adam.
