[NTLUG:Discuss] Netscape quirk?

[Gregory A. Edwards]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Will Senn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today's problem dujour is this:  I recently upgraded Netscape to 4.7.  This 'seemed' to go without a hitch, when suddenly all went
> awry.  Whenever I brought up the browser, it would hang on the about Netscape page for about 30 seconds before connecting to my
> blank startup page.  No menu, keyboard or other actions possible.  Alright, I reinstalled Redhat 6.1 after about 2 weeks of this
> silliness.  I thought I'ld see if this was something I just hadn't noticed with 4.61 (yeah right).  Sure enough, I was able to get
> it to do the about Netscape thing, without the 30 second pause though.  'All' it took to recover was to delete my .netscape
> directory and not specify a startup page, let it default to the Redhat documentation page.
> 

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> 
> Any and all comments appreciated,
> 
> 
> Will
> 
> mailto:wsenn at postfuture.com
> 
> http://www.postfuture.com

I had the same problems with 4.7.  I found a couple of things that were
setup as defaults in the preferences.  The default settings were checking
mail from Netscape and if you look in the composer settings you'll also
see that the default template is read from Netscapes' web site.  I think
it loads that each time you start 4.7 since it stopped doing going outside
at startup once I cleared that field.  It could also be the roaming
settings that did this.  When I installed 4.7 I disabled all settings in
the roaming identity but didn't clear the checkboxes that defined which
settings to save in roaming profiles.  When I cleared the template for
composer I also cleared all the roaming checkboxes so it's possible that
was what stopped it from going outside.

I do ramble don't I:)  At any rate you can play with these to see if it
makes a difference.

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com