> Sometimes Netscape will pop open a dialogue window
> (cookies, sending things, switching from secure to
> insecure, asking for a password, etc.) but the geometry is
> totally whacked out.  My window manager (gwm) deals with
> this by drawing a frame around a 0x0 window, leaving me
> with a four-pixel-wide vertical bar the normal height of a
> window decoration.

fvwm95 and kwm do the same. :-I

> When such a dialogue box opens, Netscape will stop doing
> anything else until it is dealt with by the user;
> sometimes this is as simple as resizing the tiny window,
> but sometimes you can't do that (you can end up with a
> bigger grey window) -- when that happens, if you are
> lucky, just hitting return on the tiny window will
> generate a response to the dialogue box, letting you
> continue.
> 
> Deleting the tiny window also sometimes helps.

Sometimes, yes... and sometimes Netscape just opens more of these
zero-sized windows (I have closed over 20 of them before killing
Netscape).

Sigh.

  -jm