Since you seem to understand what the original poster was saying, could you please translate it into English? What in the world does "hanging like a hairless possum after a freezing rain" mean?
Well I'm not fluent in that dialect, but my take on it is that netscape was hung up in such a way that it couldn't even redraw its widgets, thus in a catatonic state, catatonic being derived from the old lithuanian word katatonia, which means "to play possum".
Hope that clears things up -
Joe
