On Thursday 03 April 2003 07:21, ghldbrd wrote: > 1. Netscape tends to loose its way or hang after just a few webpages are > downloaded. If the program shuts down, I can't restart it, and have to > go to Konquerer or Mozilla. Now if I log out back to kwm startup, and > re-start K Desktop, things reset and I can use Netscape (6.?) again. Is > this a Netscape, KDE2, or SuSE thing? Not expecting a definitive answer, > just comments and observations. I've noticed when netscape is started it starts a couple of processes called '(dns helper)'. After a while, these dns helper processes hang and take netscape with them but continue to sit in the process table even after netscape is closed. And, if I start netscape back up with these hung dns helpers, it refuses to work. You may be having the same problem.