Hi, I have experienced problems with netscape freezing up when accessing debian's mailing list archives (debian-user, debian-development). This has happened intermittently with every netscape version I have used as far back as I can remember. I have never known where the problem really is (my setup, netscape, debian web server). I just installed 4.5b2 from slink and finally decided to see if anyone else has the same problem.
What happens is that sometimes, clicking on the month tag (say Oct) starts to download and it gets only part way. Netscape then displays that little clock like it is downloading but it never finishes. It also never lets me do anything else. Completely frozen. I have to kill it and then remove the lock file by hand. This occurs on multiple computers all running debian. Anyone know why? Also, if I get the listings downloaded and read a particular entry, when I click on "back" it always reloads the whole list. I have not disabled caching so I assume it has something to do with the way the list is setup on the server. Is this normal? The page for a whole month gets large quickly so it would be really nice to cache it during any given session. I would file a bug report if I could figure out that a bug exists and in which package. It may well be my fault somehow. thanks, Stuart