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