Once in a while, Netscape hangs while loading a new page of FlyerTalk. It displays the top two frames correctly but the bottom frame which displays the actual FT content, is blank and Netscape is frozen at "97 bytes read".

Just as with all the other Netscape problems pointed out in this thread, you know that at this point, Netscape is toast. If you close Netscape and restart it, the problem persists. The problem is that Netscape doesn't close properly and you have to manually kill the process.

Win95/98:
1. Close Netscape
2. Do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Close Program dialog box.
3. Select "Netscape" and click "End Task"
4. You may need to repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times until...
5. The "This program is not responding..." dialog box pops up at which time you can click "End Task" again to kill the process for good.
6. You should be able to restart Netscape and things should work fine again with FT.

For WinNT/2000:
1. Close Netscape.
2. Bring up the Task Manager and kill the netscape.exe process. (Ctrl-Alt-Del and select "Task Manager")
3. You should be able to restart Netscape without trouble.

These procedures let you shut down Netscape cleanly and restart it (i.e. I'm simply providing a workaround solution), but don't really address the underlying issues with Java etc.

I hope this is of use to people with similar problems with Netscape.

FewMiles..