Re: Non-Browser Compliance (RE: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?)

2002-06-08 Thread Bruce
First of all, thanks for the various hints as to what was actually happening on my system; that makes more sense, so my assumptions about Mozilla stomping out Netscape 4.77 were wrong. My apologies to the maintainer at assuming you had done something wrong. And, a general thanks to all Debian ma

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-08 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sáb, 2002-06-08 às 01:26, Vineet Kumar escreveu: > * Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 14:52]: > > Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of them will only > > allow IE or Netscape 4.*, and the other just won't work with Gecko (the > > browser just dies after a cert

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 14:52]: > Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of them will only > allow IE or Netscape 4.*, and the other just won't work with Gecko (the > browser just dies after a certain applet is used). > > Bank #2 just doesn't care. Well,

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeronimo Pellegrini) writes: > Let me say something here... > >> Many sites? Interesting. I have only found one site lately that does not work >> with galeon / mozilla, and it uses flash heavily. >> >> Could you elaborate on what you mean by "do not work?" Examples? > > Two ban

Non-Browser Compliance (RE: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?)

2002-06-07 Thread Jeremy Turner
op, or the like to be able to use a 'web-based' application. Jeremy > -Original Message- > From: Jeronimo Pellegrini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:12 PM > To: Walter Reed > Cc: Bruce; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Why

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread DvB
Walter Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:46:57AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > > Unfortunately, many sites I need to access EXPRESSLY DO NOT WORK with > > Mozilla > > or Netscape 6.0. These are unfortunately some of the most important sites I > > need to access, including so

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Let me say something here... > Many sites? Interesting. I have only found one site lately that does not work > with galeon / mozilla, and it uses flash heavily. > > Could you elaborate on what you mean by "do not work?" Examples? Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of them wil

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 09:01]: > I am running Debian Woody/SID. I generally use Konqueror for browsing, though > for some sites, I use Netscape v. 4.77, as Konqueror doesn't work well with > them. > > I had Mozilla 1.0RC-2 installed, but had never run it until today. Looks > great.

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread René Seindal
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:31:43AM -0500, DvB wrote: > Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't believe Mozilla does any such thing. I think you're running > into the sometimes very annoying ns_remote feature in Netscape 4.x/6.x > which is meant to save startup time when there's already an insta

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Robin Putters
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 16:46, Bruce wrote: > > Given the fact that, unfortunately, there are still many sites that do not > work with mozilla, but do work with Netscape 4.77, is this a wise behaviour? > Did you install mozilla-psm for accessing thos sites? You need it if they do https... Robin

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Walter Reed
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:46:57AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > Unfortunately, many sites I need to access EXPRESSLY DO NOT WORK with Mozilla > or Netscape 6.0. These are unfortunately some of the most important sites I > need to access, including some online banking sites, subscription based legal > r

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Bruce" == Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Bruce> I was able to fix this fairly easily by running "dpkg-reconfigure Bruce> netscape", and now 4.77 works again. However, many Debian end Bruce> users would not know what to do. The canonical way of doing it would be "update-alternati

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread DvB
Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HOWEVER, having now run mozilla, if I try to run "netscape" or "communicator" > (which used to run Nescape 4.77), Mozilla starts. It looks as though my > simply running Mozilla once changed /etc/alternatives/netscape to point to > mozilla instead. I don't b

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Steve Haslam
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:46:57AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > HOWEVER, having now run mozilla, if I try to run "netscape" or "communicator" > (which used to run Nescape 4.77), Mozilla starts. It looks as though my > simply running Mozilla once changed /etc/alternatives/netscape to point to > mozilla

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 09:46, Bruce wrote: > I am running Debian Woody/SID. I generally use Konqueror for browsing, though > for some sites, I use Netscape v. 4.77, as Konqueror doesn't work well with > them. > > I had Mozilla 1.0RC-2 installed, but had never run it until today. Looks > great. >

Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Bruce
I am running Debian Woody/SID. I generally use Konqueror for browsing, though for some sites, I use Netscape v. 4.77, as Konqueror doesn't work well with them. I had Mozilla 1.0RC-2 installed, but had never run it until today. Looks great. Unfortunately, many sites I need to access EXPRESSLY D