On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:29:15PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Greetings, > > I've installed Netscape 6.0 for a friend of mine. It looks pretty > cool, finally the user can change displayed font size without going to > preferences... The ugly HTML forms' elements are gone, too. However > the product seems to be too slow; it looks like a lot of debugging > stuff is still in the executable. > > We encountered two problems, and I wonder if anyone could help me > fight those. > > 1. The activation procedure. We went throught hte registration stuff > once, but it failed. Then we restarted, entered the same > username+password, and it wasn't recognizing the pair. In the end > Netscape gave up and just started the browser. But now every time it > is started anew, an activation dialog comes up (completely blank) for > a few seconds, then dissappears, and Netscape starts. Any ideas how > to rerun Activation or get rid of this 15-seconds delay? yes, remove netscape 6 and run: apt-get update apt-get install mozilla mozilla is much better then netscape 6 which is just an older mozilla snapshot with lots of AOL crap layered on top. however mozilla is still a bit sluggish compared to netscape 4 (mostly in the UI, the rendering tends to be faster) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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