Maybe try installing communicator 4.05?
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On 6/21/98, at 4:40 PM, Patrick O'Neil wrote:
>I have RH 5.0 with kernel 2.0.31 installed. I have upgraded
>Usernet and installed Netscape Communicator 4.04. When I
>start Netscape, the navigator browser starts up fine, but
>when I subsequently start up the communicator mail/news-
>reader, I run into a bit of a...problem. When I select to
>start the mailbox, there is a LOOONG delay at which time
>I wonder if netscape has frozen. The mouse pointer goes
>to a watch/clock and remains that way for a while. If I
>move the navigator window OR if I open up another app
>window (I just opened a telnet session to get my mail
>since Netscape didn't seem to want to), the navigator
>browser goes blank. No text, no buttons, just the outline
>of the browser. It is as if the Navigator screen refresh/
>repaint isn't working while everything else is fines
>
>This occurred just now as I was trying to get my mail from
>my ISP. As I was reading mail via a telnet session with
>pine, netscape was sitting in the background with a blank
>face and no sign of the mailbox window. FINALLY, as I
>was scanning messages in pine, the netscape window came
>back and the mailbox window appeared and I was then
>able to access my mail via communicator.
>
>Has anyone else experienced this inordinately long delay
>before the mailbox starts in Communicator 4.04?
>
>On a related note:
> Sometimes, too, just trying to start netscape for the first
>time in a session nothing happens. I either select netscape
>from a menu or type netscape in an xterm and nothing happens.
>
>If I start Top, I see no sign of netscape starting. If I
>wait long enough, it does appear that netscape will eventually
>start.
>
>What could be causing the tremendous delay in starting netscape,
>or once having started it, the tremendous delay in getting the
>mail window to start?
>
>patrick
>
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