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Java in Netscape is unstable--turn it off.

Go to Edit then Preferences then Advanced

and make sure the Java and JavaScript buttons are not enabled. If you need it again, you can turn it back on by reversing the process. The button toggles on and off.

Another thing is that Netscape crashes easily and often, but many times when it crashes it leaves defunct copies of itself still running. To bring up the list of phantom Netscapes in a terminal use:

ps aux | more

Then you use kill -9 to kill all the processes that are still there but not doing anything so that Netscape will work right again. Many times a stale lock is left in the .netscape directory under your home directory as well, and it is a general nuisance. To get rid of the lock:

just go to your home directory
cd to .netscape
ls to see that there is indeed a stale lock there
and then use the command rm lock.
One last thing is that when there is a defunct copy of Netscape running in the background, many times a symptom is that links will not change colors after they have been visited--that feature of Netscape is to let you know you have viewed a webpage recently. Anyway, this is very irritating, and to get rid of it you have to kill defunct copies of Netscape as described above.