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Netscape 6 Preview Crash

I am using the new Netscape 6 Preview.
It crashed every time I tried to open this Forum.
It worked OK on the Beta Forum. Then I responded to a
message in this forum using Internet Explorer, and now Netscape 6 can open it
without crashing. Has anyone else had this problem?

Another complaint about Netscape - the edit control does not
word wrap, so these messages look ugly.

Re: Netscape 6 Preview Crash

Reply #1 –
I don't know why Netescape would crash. Obviously, it has some bugs that need to be worked out.

If you look at the source for the submission form, you will see that we use a "WRAP" tag on the TEXTAREA control of the form. This is specifically there for the Netscape browsers. IE wraps automatically, without the need for the extra WRAP tag. If Netscape 6 doesn't even respond to the WRAP directive, then I would venture to guess that there is not much we can do to overcome it from our end.

Re: Netscape 6 Preview Crash

Reply #2 –
Its not as stable as your Preview was. It does render pages faster than IE.

Re: Netscape 6 Preview Crash

Reply #3 –
To fix the text wrapping problem in Netscape 6 (or Mozilla M15, which I am using now)
it seems that you need to use the " WRAP=virtual " keyword.
This is what Mozilla does on their bug reporting page ( http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html ).
This page displays correctly in IE 5 and Netscape 4, so it should be safe to make the change.

Re: Netscape 6 Preview Crash

Reply #4 –
Change made...we will monitor for any possible problems...

Re: Netscape 6 Preview Crash

Reply #5 –
Thank you for the quick response. I can confirm that it now wraps properly in Netscape 6, which makes it a lot nicer to use!