If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall your bookmarks.html. Maybe that will help. I run Netscape 4.7 (in potato) just fine on this old Cyrix PR200+, 430VXboard, 64MB RAM (non-parity),...well, even though this machine's an' old piece 'o crap. ;-) 4.7 runs better than any of the previous versions here. And BTW, there has been no clean install on this box since 1.3 (bo?).
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