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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:44:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Uday Pai <uday@ensim.com>
To: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Subject: [svlug] Netscape doesn't work
Hi
Your system does not have a complete fontpath for X to use.
You should then add the 75dpi scaled font to your path list
using the command:
chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
This should fix both the font display problems and the
problems with Java crashing.
Well, it works for me!
Cheers!
uday
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, John de la Garza wrote:
> Am I the only one that thinks Netscape is nonfunctional? I am using
> 4.72 or what ever comes with RedHat 6.2. Maybe I am using it wrong.
> I have a tendency to open my search engine then middle click links to
> open them in a new window. Then I will close them when done. So I am
> basically opening and closing a lot of Netscape sessions.
>
> With in minutes typically the middle button stops working left
> clicking on new links has no effect, the refresh button won't even
> work...At this point to open any link the only way to do it is right
> click and select open in new window.
I see this every once in awhile on my RHAT 6.2 box...I'm using 4.74 when
*really* need it (Java off, Javascript on), but the later mozilla
nightly
builds have been really good.
They're in the middle of a stability push, which means quirky nightly
builds... as soon as you find one that's stable in all the features you
want (for instance, nightly builds right now don't handle
cookie-prompting
correctly... I'm waiting for that to get fixed... before that, there
were
some javascript issues, but they got fixed), mozilla will typically stay
running for hours now, often much longer than the 4.5x/7x series would.
If you're using Netscape on Debian, I don't want to hear about
complaints;
Netscape bus-err's on exit on Debian, and doesn't on other distros
(Mandrake, RHAT, etc.), so I think that's a Debian problem with libs
somewhere, not to start a distro war...
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To: svlug@svlug.org
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:18:50 -0700
From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
Subject: [svlug] browser-history patch (checkpoint feature) (fwd)
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In all the recent discussion of Netscape instability, foibles,
browsing habits, etc, I finally polished up some hacks I've made to
browser-history. What is browser-history? See:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/browser-history/
Why use this? If your netscape keeps crashing, you can use
browser-history with this patch to be able to easily restore your
next invocation of netscape to where you were. How? In addition to
the normal browser-history functions of logging every URL you visit,
you can now also checkpoint all the URLs that are currently being
viewed by a browser window (if that browser is supported by
browser-history) so that you have a stored list of exactly where you
were. Then just bring up the browser-history, and middle-click away
on the checkpointed URLs to quickly recover.
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