The 03.05.01 at 18:44, John LeMay wrote:

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Huh? I use Netscape 7 and Mozilla 1, and changes in one are seen on the other, automatically: they use the same configuration and files.

While I've never had an issue with this, it is highly discouraged to share your Mozilla profile with Netscape. I believe the point is made in the release notes for Moz. I only mention it since it sounds like there may be some serious problems brought on by doing so.

Which problems? I'm interested. I have been using both for well over a year, I think, without a single problem that I remember... The only problem would be with Netscape 4.x, I think. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

The 03.05.02 at 05:44, zentara wrote:

Yeah, I had that problem, can't quite remember what is was. But after you ran Mozilla-based-Netscape, Mozilla was messed up. Maybe they've fixed it since then, but I wouldn't chance it.

Well, I don't know... you are getting me worried. But I have been using mozilla and netscape 6 and 7 since... November 2001, without noticing anything. Suse 8.1 had mozilla, then I needed Netscape for something, I installed and started it, and it just used my mozilla configuration files without even mentioning it. I do a change in one, and next time I start the other one, I see the changes. What I never do, is start both simultaneously, not even as different user.

I can run the old 4.9 version of Nescape with Mozilla though.

Maybe you mean the problem is running simultaneously both mozilla and netscape is problematic? I never do that. Both programs would try to access the same set of files and folders... no, no way. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

The 03.05.02 at 16:57, zentara wrote:

I'm straining my brain to remember what the glitch was. I remember using Mozilla, then wanting to try Netscape 6. When I installed Netscape 6, it said it needed to create a profile, and I let it do it's thing. Then when I went to start Mozilla, my entire profile was gone, all my bookmarks , setting, everything. It may have had something to do with the "default user profile" vs. "zentara profile"

Ah! Yes, when Netscape thinks you are trying to start a new session, when another one is running (perhaps because it failed to die) it asks for a second profile. That makes sense in windows but not in linux: It's used in order to have different profiles for diferent users, but under the same windows user. I don't understand why that should pop in linux, but if it does, I just exit quickly and kill the other sesion that failed to exit previously.

Anyways, I'm happy enough with Mozilla that I don't even bother with Netscape anymore. What really turned me off to netscape was the way they forced you to their "mail information center" everytime you tried to get mail.

I never used that. No need, I use fetchmail for mail fetching. I usually prefer Mozilla. But now and then I need to connect to one of those silly places, like banks or official sites, and they only support IE and Netscape. Sometimes, I have been forced to use old Netscape 4.7 :-( For example... one goverment site here. With Netscape 7 there is an important button that does nothing when clicked. Netscape 6 pops on entry to the page a window (from the server, I think) that says "Netscape 6.x does not support, for the moment, LiveConnect, so that digital signing is not possible. Use another browser version". So I was forced to use Netscape 4.7, and it worked. What is that "LiveConnect", I wonder? :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson