IP-TEC - Infopeople Technical Service Archive: Netscape 2.0 and Windows 95

Netscape 2.0 and Windows 95

Whittier Public Library (wpl@quick.net)
Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:16:45 -0800

We are running the eighth and ninth Wonders of the World (see
Subject: line) on one of our new Pentium 133 machines. We have
plenty of memory (16Mb) to suit our humble Internet navigation
purposes.

Why today has Netscape taken to "stumbling" at start up?
Specifically, we point-and-click on the "Shortcut to Netscape" icon,
the hourglass hangs for a second or two, the Netscape Navigator 2.0
logo appears briefly and then vanishes. It does not appear on the
taskbar. If we point-and-click the icon fifteen times, the logo will
appear and vanish fifteen times.

Additional data: Netscape calls the Microsoft Dial-Up Networking
application automatically. Rather than select Connect, I Cancel the
dial-up session because I want to do some local stuff with
Netscape--another issue, importing bookmarks (man, v. 1.1 is so much
better!). I can't believe that not initiating a dial-up session
would so confuse Netscape...on second thought, of course I can
believe it...but it has not happened in the past. So, this may be a
more fundamental Windows issue.

Any ideas?

(And thanks to all who have replied to my former grumblings. I have
actually gotten v.2.01 up and running on a 486 66MHz machine running
Windows 3.1. My fingers are perpetually crossed...)

Dean C. Rowan
Whittier Public Library