I haven’t seen this one before. I created a page at http://www.thecj2apage.com If I open another window, go to my e-mail, etc., then return to the page, the url us “index2.html” appended to it. The index2.html page does exist on my server, but I don’t know why it attaches itself when I leave the window, then return to it. I don’t have any “new” statements or redirects in the HTML. I’ve rebooted the computer and have cleared my cache. The page does not reload to the index2 page; just “index2.html” appears in the url in the location box.
I cleared the cache using Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Cache|Clear Memory Cache/Clear Disk Cache. A friend of mine made a shortcut to a folder that contains fat.db and a bunch of other files. I deleted all but fat.db. I assume that I cleared history? How do I check the auto-complete and clear the location bar?
The “preferences” dialog under the edit menu, choosing “navigator” on the tree display gives you buttons for clearing the history and the location bar.
fat.db is the cache index file, in other words, the file that points a particular URL to one of the other cache files. If you manually remove the other junk from the cache, you should remove that, too. If you have an empty cache directory, Netscape will immediately create a new fat.db when it comes up. BTW, you can see what’s in the cache by typing “about:cache” into the location bar.
History is kept in netscape.hst, which you may also remove manually. The location bar popup is kept in prefs.js, which contains many other preference settings as well, so you don’t want to delete it.