I tried Netscape 6.2 today. No noticable improvement on the symptoms I have outlined. no improvement.
After testing it I compressed the application to .sit format to prevent its taking over Communicator. "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: > > Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > and improved interaction with Java. > > > > Just out of curiosity: Why is Java interaction so important? I haven't > > yet seen a *useful* applet that couldn't be run in an external applet > > runner. (And I do like Java as a programming language.) > > Actually I wonder myself about this. I only jave one site out of the > hundreds i have bookmarked in Communicator that appears to use Java. > That's the one site I have to use IE to get. > > > > > > They don't expect major features (in some platforms not all) to be > > > broken or not turned on. i.e. Plugins on the Mac platform do not work. > > > > Here we go again... > > > > * Did you let the the Netscape 6.2 installer install the Flash plug-in? > > * Do you have a file called Shockwave Flash NP-PPC in the Netscape 6.2 / > > Mozilla plug-ins folder? > > I'm waiting on updating to 6.2 until Communicator 4.7.9. Netscape is > supposed to fix the problem of Netscape6 taking over all of > Communicator's preferences. > > Currently you can't run the two if installed on the same Hard drive (or > same partition) > > > * Do you have a reasonably recent version of QuickTime? > > Is Quicktime 5.0.2 recent enough > > > * Have you verified (in the QuickTime Setting control panel) that the > > QuickTime Plugin has been configured to handle QuickTime movies? > > yes > > > * Which version of Mac OS are you running? > > OS 9.1. > G4-500 > 1.5 Gb system RAM > 27 GB Hard Drive > ATI Rage Pro AGP video > > > Does it have a folder called"Internet Plug-Ins" in the System Folder? > > Yes > > > Does that folder contain thefiles called "QuickTime Plugin" and > > QuickTimePlugin.class? > > Yes > > > * If you don't have the Internet Plug-Ins folder, have you put the > > QuickTime Plugin manually in the Netscape 6.2 / Mozilla plug-ins > > folder? > > * Do you have conflicting versions of the plug-in in the system Internet > > Plug-Ins folder and the Netscape 6.2 / Mozilla plug-ins folder? > > On the current version of N6 Ihave identical versions in plugins and the > system Internet plugins Folder > > > * Have you installed an outdated and redundant copy of Internet Config? > > No have most recent copy > > > All the versions of Mac OS that Mozilla runs on come with the > > functionality of Internet Config contained in the system components. > > * There is a file called "Internet Preferences" in the Preferences folder > > inside System Folder. What happens if you move that file elsewhere and > > restart? > > Doesn't seem to help > > > > > > Obvious items that should be turned on such as Save, Save as, cut, copy > > > and paste don't work (again in some platforms, or not at all). > > > > On which platforms do they not work? > > The are reports on some netscape groups that on PC's, that 6.2 hasn't > changed much. The last version of Netscape6, I have been trying didn't. > (Mac version) > > > > > > Finally, In Communicator there is as much emphasis on one component such > > > as Email, Client, and Webrowser. > > > > One could say that the Web browser component didn't have enough emphasis. > > It was enough at the time it was designed. Granted they should have > improved it as each new thing come out, style sheets, Java, and so on. > But that was a decision netscape made. Most likely because they didn't > have enough funds to keep programmers to keep it up to date. > > > > > The Major reason why Communicator come out originally was to have one > > > convienent package, in which one could read their mail, read their news > > > and finally if they needed to go to the web they could do so while in > > > same application. > > > > A Web browser isn't an extension of an email app. A Web browser is one > > app. An email reader is another. (Sadly, in the case of Mozilla and > > Communicator, they both have been forced in the same process.) > > To me a Web Browser is. If I receive a notice in an email of an update > or an upgrade of a program I use. I don't want to have to copy the link. > Close the email, then open Browser. Paste link in then go to site. down > load the up to date. I want to be able to click on the link and zap I am > in the browser and downloading the file. > > You should have one program to do all rather than having to depend upon > having 2-3 different ones. > > Its silly to have to use one application of one, another for another , > and then another for the last. > > It waste hard Drive space, plus it waste RAM use if you have to have > more than one open at a time. > > Currently I don't have to worry about either. But, it hasn't been all > that long ago I had to worry about both. > > This attitude that oh heck everyones got the hard drive space and the > RAM lets waste all we can mystifies me. > > > > > -- > > Henri Sivonen > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/ > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling > 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. 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