|> Netscape, in windows, in my experience, always had a tendency to |> make a system run progressively slower until either netscape was |> closed or everything crashed. I hadn't seen it under linux and |> thought it had gotten fixed, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe that's |> what you ran into, too?
I have seen exactly this behaviour with Netscape (4.05, running under hamm, but installed by hand in /usr/local ) several times in the past few months. Slower and slower response, disk thrashing, top shows no memory or swap left, everything back to normal once Netscape is killed. Jim