I believe I have mailed out about this before, but have you tried
downloading and installing libc5 version of netscape instead of glibc
version? Search the newsgroups and you'll find that this does solve the
problem in most of the cases.
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Gary Bunker wrote:
> I have completely wiped all the Mandrake-specific stuff for Netscape
> from the system, including the shell script that once resided at
> /usr/bin/netscape, because I could not upgrade to the 128-bit version
> of Netscape and use that script without reprogramming and I'm no
> programmer.
>
> I have no scripts of any kind, and the NS files are all installed in
> the default NS-Install directory of /opt/netscape. To make my life
> easier and avoid adding to my already lengthy PATH, I made a link to
> Netscape at /usr/bin/netscape. Now, the program works just as before,
> but it will often kill extra windows.
>
> I have tried to use the File-Close command, rather than the Close
> widget, and it doesn't matter. About half of the time, when I close
> one window, all of them close.
>
> When does Opera come out? :-)
>
> On 4 Mar, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
> >
> > Make sure that you invoke it as "netscape" and not as
> > "netcape-communicator" or "netscape-navigator" or via a shell script
> > from anybody other than Mandrake that invokes it as one of those two
> > things.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > | I've nuked the Netscape RPMs that came with Mandrake 7 in order to use
> > | the US-crypto version (can't find an RPM for it anywhere).
> > |
> > | Now, it closes all windows when it should close one. This is not an
> > | "all the time" thing, but often enough to make me want to kill
> > | Netscape's programmers.
> > |
> > | I've tried an earlier suggestion someone had, of uninstalling and
> > | reinstalling the compatibility libraries, and that made absolutely no
> > | difference.
> > |
> > | Anyone have a 100% fix for this, or should I go back to 4.70 and use
> > | Fortify to get my 128-bit encryption up?
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