# Why doesn't my Netscape browser work?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-my-netscape-browser-work/342957 "2006-02-04T04:15:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-my-netscape-browser-work/342957/1 "2006-02-04T04:15:20Z")

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My Netscape browser will not work. I have it on Desktop, and when my WalMart Connect ISP connects, I click on Netscape to do my surfing.  
Now, I click on Netscape, my hourglass comes on for about 5 seconds, and then hourglass disappears. I haven’t downloaded any new programs that I can remember. This started about a week ago.  
Can anybody advise me? I have Windows XP on a computer a few months old.  
thanks,  
hh

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-my-netscape-browser-work/342957/2 "2006-02-04T04:29:53Z")

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Have you tried reinstalling the browser? You can download it again [here](http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/).

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-my-netscape-browser-work/342957/3 "2006-02-04T05:00:53Z")

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> [@Reply](#):
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> Have you tried reinstalling the browser? You can download it again [here](http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/).

Just did that, and it downloaded but wouldn’t install. It can’t read who my server is, whatever that means. A window came up saying that there was a server reading error, or something similar. It asks for my ‘host’ name, etc…  
thanks,  
hh

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**Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-my-netscape-browser-work/342957/4 "2006-02-04T08:23:29Z")

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Can you give us the exact error messages?

Or, you can also try the official [Netscape Browser Technical Issues forum](http://community.netscape.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&folderId=3&webtag=ws-nscpbrowser&listMode=13).