Well, the netscape script that Mandrake provided was there to provide a
fix for the problem of closing extra windows, so if you wiped it out,
that explains why you're having the problem . . .
It's a pretty compex /bin/sh script, so I don't have any immediate
suggestions . . . now that 128-bit encryption can be legally exported
from the recently-enlightened US of A, there's no reason I can see why
Mandrake couldn't package up a 128-bit version. You might to wait for
that to happen.
I have downloaded both opera and mozilla; I found mozilla more useful
in its current state but neither of them is in a terribly useful state
right now.
They do both have Alpha versions out for Linux that you can play with,
though.
On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| I have completely wiped all the Mandrake-specific stuff for Netscape
| from the system, including the shell script that once resided at
| /usr/bin/netscape, because I could not upgrade to the 128-bit version
| of Netscape and use that script without reprogramming and I'm no
| programmer.
|
| I have no scripts of any kind, and the NS files are all installed in
| the default NS-Install directory of /opt/netscape. To make my life
| easier and avoid adding to my already lengthy PATH, I made a link to
| Netscape at /usr/bin/netscape. Now, the program works just as before,
| but it will often kill extra windows.
|
| I have tried to use the File-Close command, rather than the Close
| widget, and it doesn't matter. About half of the time, when I close
| one window, all of them close.
|
| When does Opera come out? :-)
|
| On 4 Mar, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
| >
| > Make sure that you invoke it as "netscape" and not as
| > "netcape-communicator" or "netscape-navigator" or via a shell script
| > from anybody other than Mandrake that invokes it as one of those two
| > things.
| >
| >
| > On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| > | I've nuked the Netscape RPMs that came with Mandrake 7 in order to use
| > | the US-crypto version (can't find an RPM for it anywhere).
| > |
| > | Now, it closes all windows when it should close one. This is not an
| > | "all the time" thing, but often enough to make me want to kill
| > | Netscape's programmers.
| > |
| > | I've tried an earlier suggestion someone had, of uninstalling and
| > | reinstalling the compatibility libraries, and that made absolutely no
| > | difference.
| > |
| > | Anyone have a 100% fix for this, or should I go back to 4.70 and use
| > | Fortify to get my 128-bit encryption up?
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