heya; i cant find the preference thingy to turn off the navi-snooper or whatever it is. :/ i used to have that, but now it's off... (try the help? eek!) anyway, wouldnt it be easy enough to just turn javascript off? (what!? and maybe not even SEE any advertisement banners!? oh no! the horrors! ::coughcough::) i dunno, just an idea. anyway, when i get netscape choked up and unresponding, i close it (if i can), then hit the ctrl-alt-del to get rid of it in the task list. sometimes a little invisible netscape task gets stuck in there. end that, and it should restart okay. hopefully, ya wont need to reboot, then.