Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?
Bruce <bestb@sympatico.ca> 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 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 instance of
netscape running. Try running netscape again when mozilla is already
running and you'll probably notice that you didn't really solve the
problem.
To solve this, edit /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper (which
/etc/alternatives/netscape ultimately points to... at least on my woody
system it does) and change the line that reads "use_ns_remote=yes,"
changing the "yes" to "no." Now, when you run netscape with a mozilla
instance already running, netscape 4.x will run instead of mozilla.
HTH
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