[OLUG] Bookmarks are magically updating

[Vincent]

This has heppened to me before...

Check "ps -A" and see how many instances of "netscape-commun" are
running.  There should only be two.  Could it be some weird behavior of
a left-over process after Netscape has crashed?

Marc Davis wrote:
> 
> Well, this is hardly the words of wisdom category, but I can answer one
> of your questions, FWIW:
> 
>         Yep.  It happens to me, too.  It's not constant by any means, happens
> only occasionally, and seems to occur following some other of the
> perpetual Netscape hissy fits.
>         When it starts up, it's far more frequent than you are reporting --
> more like every three to five minutes rather than 30.  It hacks me off.
> It always goes away by logging out of my desktop (GNOME), and usually
> (but not invariably) stops when I simply close and relaunch the
> browser.  This is on Red Hat 6.1, October Gnome (with various updated
> components), Communicator 4.7.
>         The message I get is "bookmarks have changed on disk and are being
> reloaded."
> 
> I can't wait for Mozilla or Opera or *something*.  M12 is encouraging .
> . .
> 
> Marc
> 
> Mike Hostetler wrote:
> >
> > Today, something strange has been happening with my Netscape - I'll have it open and, once
> > in while (perhaps once every 30 minutes) a window pops up and says that my bookmarks have
> > been updated and have been re-read.  And it's true - the time changes on
> > the .netscape/bookmarks.html file in my home directory.  But the size does not change. Again,
> > this just started today.  Yes, I tried closing Netscape and starting it again - it does
> > the same thing.
> >
> > Now, here are my questions:
> >
> > 1.) Has anyone else have this happen?
> > 2.) Does anyone have an idea of how to stop this?
> >
> > At first I thought it was a cookie that is out of hand, but stopping and starting the browser
> > should have stopped that, right??
> >
> > any words of wisdom would be appreciated.
> >
> > - mikeh

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