Hello All,
I've installed N6 on a RedHat 7 box and the install was flawless - did it as
root. The N6 proggy works very nice as well and so far, no bugs that I can
tell - much, much better than the 4.x Netscrapp. Believe me, this is very
hard for me to admit, I've long been a Netscape hater.
Just my two pennies...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Kieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Netscape 6 follies
> That is you are luckier than me at least you have it
> run, I never be succesful installing NS6, the
> installer always fails , can not install xpi. file or
> something. So I took my d*** off that....
>
> A.. Long time a go, when I just download a big (not
> so big if compares to Com 4.7x ) and run the install
> script localy, I could install it!. This is probably
> preview version ... but too buggy. I just wonder what
> Netscape people do huh?.... It is really dissapointed.
>
>
>
> --- Romain Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> OK, I have loaded Netscape 6 for Linux. It's got
> > some nice polish,
> > but NS6's problems leave me give doubts whether I
> > should even bother
> > writing up all the problems and hope someone will
> > address them. I
> > recall some browser discussion on redhat-list a
> > while back, but I
> > don't see any reliable archives to search.
> >
> > The installer is braindamaged. There are so many
> > ways for it to
> > break. And as far as I can tell, every time you
> > have to re-invoke
> > netscape-installer, it insists on downloading
> > everything again --
> > no way to tell it you already have the .xpi's
> > sitting around.
> >
> > I'm running RH7.0 on a 750MHz Athlon machine. I got
> > NS6 to put
> > itself in /usr/local/netscape, and it seemed to get
> > confused settings
> > from an .mozilla directory in my home directory. To
> > remedy this,
> > I made the mistake of doing an rm -r .mozilla, and
> > then NS6 would
> > segfault whenever I invoked it.
> >
> > So I re-run netscape-installer, with a slow
> > connection to NS's
> > AOL-homed server. (Ack!) This time, I did an "su -
> > root", so that
> > it wouldn't muck with my home directory. (I
> > previously ran a UID
> > 0 process with my home directory set -- why is it
> > dependent on
> > me?!) I chose the "Recommended" installation, and
> > apparently
> > there's no newsreader under Linux -- I couldn't find
> > anything
> > Usenet-related under Edit -> Preferences -> Mail and
> > Newsgroups.
> >
> > Now I try to look at a RealAudio-enabled page, and
> > NS6 wants to
> > download a copy. I try to get clever by doing
> > # cd /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
> > # find . -print | cpio -pdml
> > /usr/local/netscape/plugins
> > NS6 faults during startup, and spawns a TalkBack
> > window to report
> > home what's happened. I remove my .so's from
> > /usr/local/netscape/plugins
> > and see what NS6 does when I say "yes" to getting
> > the plugin. As
> > far as I can tell, it's just trying to reload the
> > same old .rpm from
> > RealNetworks. Hmm, time to see if anyone else has
> > figured it out.
> >
> > For jollies, I try some other plugins. The speed
> > test from
> > dslreports.com wants a JRE plugin, so it happily
> > downloads jre.xpi
> > (15.5 MB), and fails without providing any hints to
> > me. Ugh.
> >
> > Time to declare victory and go home...
> >
> > Romain Kang Disclaimer:
> > I speak for myself alone,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] except when
> > indicated otherwise.
> >
> >
> >
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