Is still occuring in the latest promotions
please see adiitional step to attempt to recreate!
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Note This has occured twice today but is not always reproducable

changing the position of the navigation buttons from top to bottom and
also from bottom to top crashes hotjava

see comments for trace

to attempt to recreate:
1. open the edit display preferences page
2. change the navigation buttons postion
3. and the locator position
4. apply