Check your proxy settings. I'd guess that it's trying to get to an
automatic proxy configuration and failing or connecting very slowly.
Alternatively it could have slow access to a startup page, but with no
connection it fails the name lookup immediately and doesn't waste
further time looking.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Netscape starts up slowy (almost seems like it is going to hang) when i
| start it up while i am connected to the internet. This does not happen
| when i start up netscape when i am not connected to the internet .. it
| does not hang, it starts right up. Does anyone know what could be
| causing this? I have erased my .netscape dir hoping that that would fix
| the problem but no such luck. I connect to the internet via modem and
| am not connected to a lan. Any help would be greatly be appreciated.
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