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bkurt
02-26-2001, 09:40 PM
I just downloaded and installed the newest Netscape figuring I would give it a shot. It's not bad at all. A little slower than say Opera but not bad overall. I'm noticing a few problems though. The first is that for some reason it will only load some pages when I am logged in as root. When I try to load such pages as a normal user it doesn't work, it just sits there. Anybody have any ideas?? Thanks. Oh yeah I'm using slack 7.1 and I installed netscape in /usr/local/netscape.
bkurt
02-26-2001, 10:16 PM
Just to add a little update. It only seems to be when trying to access secure sites.
bigrigdriver
02-27-2001, 11:37 AM
Get pen and paper. Log in as root and start Netscape. Then, click on Edit-Preferences. Go through each and every catagory and write down what you have set up. Logoff, and log back in as User. Start Netscape again, and Edit-Preferences. Make them match your root setup (except for those fields which refer to user-specific files).
You have probably got something setup differently in the User setup (that was my problem). :cool:
bigrigdriver
02-27-2001, 11:39 AM
Get pen and paper. Log in as root and start Netscape. Then, click on Edit-Preferences. Go through each and every catagory and write down what you have set up. Logoff, and log back in as User. Start Netscape again, and Edit-Preferences. Make them match your root setup (except for those fields which refer to user-specific files).
You have probably got something setup differently in the User setup (that was my problem). :cool:
bkurt
02-27-2001, 08:42 PM
Ok tried going through the prefs and everything was already set the same for user and root. Any other ideas.
Tyr-7BE
02-27-2001, 08:48 PM
I'm no security pro, but it seems to me that if the page is a secure one, it will use SSL. My theory is that the user doesn't have execution rights to SSL. If you know how, give the user execution rights. If you don't, I don't know where SSL is so I wouldn't know. Seems to be a permission problem though.
The King Ant
02-28-2001, 02:46 AM
Mozilla had/has a bug for quite a while where you couldn't use SSL unless you owned the SSL/PSM Mozilla files. I don't know if it's fixed yet, or if Netscape 6.0(1) have the same problem.
It sounds like that's what you're experiencing...
The King Ant
02-28-2001, 02:54 AM
Ah, here we go. bug 49507 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49507)
Looks like it was fixed for Mozilla in January. The Netscape branch is from before January, so they'd have to add in a patch on their own. There might be a work around listed on that but report page. Or you could wait for the next release of Netscape. Or... you could just use Mozilla (http://mozilla.org/releases/).
bkurt
02-28-2001, 08:37 PM
Thank you for the link to the website. That had the answer I was looking for. The solution was that in order to view secure pages the person using the browser had to be the owner of the psm directory within the netscape directory. So I did a chown -R user psm and I was all set. Not sure what possible security issues this poses though.
bkurt
02-28-2001, 08:37 PM
Thank you for the link to the website. That had the answer I was looking for. The solution was that in order to view secure pages the person using the browser had to be the owner of the psm directory within the netscape directory. So I did a chown -R user psm and I was all set. Not sure what possible security issues this poses though.