Netscape Questions

[DMR]

I've got a couple of Netscape quirks that I hope someone can help me work out:

1. Even though I've specified my bookmark file as my "home page" in preferences/navigator/home page, Netscape insists on displaying the About Communicator page as my startup page instead. However, when I click the Home button after that, it does load my bookmark file. This behavior persists even after trashing my preferences file and repointing my startup page to my bookmarks file again. WTF?

2. I haven't been able to import the Netscape address book from my Win 98 box into my Linux system. I've copied the address book file (from a DOS floppy) into the Netscape directory on the Linux box, and tried to import from within Netscape, but the formatting doesn't seem to be correct. The email addresses appear as they should, but the "name" field is blank, and when I try to get properties for any entry, nothing happens.

Specs:
Redhat 6.2
Navigator 4.72
Gateway P-II 400
64M RAM
3DFX Voodoo
SMC NIC

Any ideas?
TIA

[sfam]

Originally posted by DMR:
I've got a couple of Netscape quirks that I hope someone can help me work out:

1. Even though I've specified my bookmark file as my "home page" in preferences/navigator/home page, Netscape insists on displaying the About Communicator page as my startup page instead. However, when I click the Home button after that, it does load my bookmark file. This behavior persists even after trashing my preferences file and repointing my startup page to my bookmarks file again. WTF?

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Specs:
Redhat 6.2
Navigator 4.72
Gateway P-II 400
64M RAM
3DFX Voodoo
SMC NIC

Any ideas?
TIA

Netscape doesn't think of a home page the same as IE does. The homepage in Netscape is the site that will open when you click the "home" icon. The start page is something different, though. Go back to where you set the home page and look just below that and you should see a section that says "when opening" or something, and it should give you three options, start with an empty page, load the homepage, or something else, I forget what. Sorry this is so vague, but it's 4 AM right now, and I'm on a Windows laptop, so I can't check, and I haven't used Netscape in ages so I'm trying to recall from my exhausted memory.

As far as your second question, AFAIK you can't import Windows address book into Linux and have everything work correctly. I'm not positive, but I'm quite confident of this.

Hope this helps you.

[Malakin]

1. Make sure Edit->Preferences->Navigator has "browser starts with homepage". Then it should start with whatever your homepage is which is chosen just under that obviously, works for me.

2. I have Netscape in Linux running directly off the same files that it's using under windows (dual boot win2k & Mandrake 7.2) with a big symbolic link that looks like this
/root/nsmail -> /mnt/windows/program files/netscape/Users/default/Mail
and everything works fine. I can access everything from either windows or linux.

I just use Netscape for mail though, typing this from Konqueror :)

[DMR]

Thanks all,

But the problem is that I have set the preferences, it just doesn't take. Not a major bummer, but I'd still like it to work correctly.

[Tyr-7BE]

Originally posted by DMR:
Thanks all,

But the problem is that I have set the preferences, it just doesn't take. Not a major bummer, but I'd still like it to work correctly.

Permissions problem? Probably not...nutscrape is like that...a major bummer overall.

[DMR]

Doubt its permissions Tyr-7BE, all the other prefs work. Must just be another Nutscrape Nuisance...bum :(

BTW- 806 posts and you're still a junior grasshopper. What up wit' dat?! :D

[ 24 March 2001: Message edited by: DMR ]

[Pras]

You need to add '-no-about-splash' for it to skip the about page. If you do a 'netscape --help' you'll get a lot of command line options.

Not sure about the address book thing though.