IP-TEC - Infopeople Technical Service Archive: Vanishing Netscape 2.01

Vanishing Netscape 2.01

Whittier Public Library (wpl@quick.net)
Tue, 2 Apr 1996 05:47:25 -0800

Truly, I have other ways to amuse myself than by belaboring my
frustrations with Netscape, but I am compelled to persist with this
one. I have received a few responses, but they have not been "on
point," as the lawyers put it.

We're running Windows 95. We had no trouble downloading Netscape
2.01 and setting it up. In fact, it ran reasonably well for a week
or two.

Now--all of a sudden--clicking on the Shortcut to Netscape results in
the following: the Netscape logo appears for a moment...then
disappears. It does not retire to the Taskbar. I don't know where
else to find it. I can continue clicking, and it will repeat its
vanishing act.

If I resort to Running Netscape from, say, Windows Explorer, the same
phenomenon occurs.

Today, I re-installed a new copy of Netscape. The same thing
happened. One of the responses to my former report of this problem
suggested that I had multiple winsock.dll files. That response was
correct, but deleting or renaming one of the files does not correct
the problem. (Where did I get two winsock.dll files from? I've only
used the connection software included in Windows 95...)

To compound this matter: an older version of Netscape (1.1) on a
different machine running Windows 3.1 has been behaving similarly.
This suggests to me that the bug is not exclusive to v.2.01, if the
problem is a Netscape problem at all. (Guess where my bias leans.)

I would appreciate reading any further thoughts of yours on this
matter. I have posted a similar request to
comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows, a newsgroup which addresses
these matters. I'm hoping, also, to get some input from that
resource. If I do, I'll post the useful stuff here. (My review of
past postings to the newsgroup suggests that there is a lot of
disgruntlement over Netscape. I really think we need to consider
whether or not we want Netscape as a "browser of choice.")

Dean C. Rowan
Whittier Public Library