I crashed Linux

[kevinfal at seas.upenn.edu (Kevin Falcone)]

>>>>> "MJD" == Mark J Dulcey <mark at buttery.org> writes:

  MJD> Netscape gets like that all the time. But I've always been able
  MJD> to recover by switching to a terminal window and doing 'kill
  MJD> -KILL nnn' where nnn is the Netscape process ID.

Just as an aside, I've had good results on my linux box using kill -12
netscapepid (where 12 is SIGUSR2).  This makes netscape save the
bookmarks file and remove the ~/.netscape/lock file.  Of course, there
are other time that nothing short of kill -KILL will work (I love flash)

-kevin

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