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[Nomdo Jansonius <nomdo AT dds.nl>]

Thanks to Russ Loroville and Robert Steinmetz for their responses. They 
made me (almost) fix the problem. For netscape I did the following steps:

  as "root": 

    cd /home/user
    mkdir .netscape
    cd .netscape
    mkdir archive
    mkdir cache
    cd .. (i.e. back to /home/user)
    cp /root/.xinitrc /home/user/.xinitrc
    cd .. (i.e. to /home)
    chmod -R 777 user

  reboot (possibly not obligated), and then as "user":
    
    startx
    netscape

Now almost everything works fine. However, Backspace does not function 
correctly in Netscape, whereas it does function correctly in e.g. Xterm. 
I succesfully applied the same procedure in BasicLinux 1.7 with Netscape 
4.51. Amazingly, in BL1.7/Netscape 4.51 the Backspace does function 
correctly! Any suggestions? 

   >>I red the discussion between James Miller and Steven (May 19,
   >>2003) concerning root/user. Clearly, it would be wise to browse
   >>the net as a regular user, not as root. However, if I log in as
   >>"user" instead of "root" then X looks awful (as if X starts
   >>without icewm?) and I can't start my browser. Any suggestions how
   >>to solve this problem?