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System Requirements:
| Processor: | Disk Space: | RAM (Min.): | RAM (Rec.): | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows: | 386SX | 1MB | 4MB | 8MB |
| Macintosh: | 68030 | 2MB | 4MB | 8MB |
| UNIX: | N/A | 3MB | 16MB | 16MB |
The Verify Document option on the Cache and Network preferences pane may be used to control how often the server is re-checked.
The maximum amount of space consumed by the disk cache is controlled from the Cache and Network pane of the Preferences dialog. Set it to the largest amount of disk space you feel comfortable devoting to this purpose (or 0) and then just ignore the cache directory. When the cache reaches its limit, new documents will push old documents out of it: the most recently accessed document will be removed, and should that document be visited again, it will be re-fetched from the network.
ASYNC DNS = YES
to
ASYNC DNS = NO
in your NETSCAPE.INI file.
Some other browsers allow you to perform your access authorization without re-entering the ID and password - but this could constitute a security risk.
[Services] SOCKS_Server=mysocks.domain.com
-geometry =620x950+630+40
or the X resource
Netscape.TopLevelShell.geometry: =620x950+630+40
Warning:
Name: toText
Class:XmTextField
Character 'c', not supported in Font. Discarded.
This is a bug in some versions of the OpenWindows X server that causes it to pick fonts which are only 1 pixel high, making text fields unusable. We do not yet know of a reliable workaround.
When you started Netscape, it should have printed this message to stderr:
If the $XNLSPATH directory does not contain the proper config files, Netscape will crash the first time you try to paste into a text field. (This is a bug in the X11R5 libraries against which this program was linked.)
Since neither X11R4 nor X11R6 come with these config files, we have included them with the Netscape distribution. The normal place for these files is /usr/lib/X11/nls/ (on SunOS), /usr/X386/lib/X11/nls/ (on Linux), or /usr/X11/lib/X11/nls/ (on BSDI.) If you can't create that directory, you should set the $XNLSPATH environment variable to point at the place where you installed the files.
The Motif spec says that Backspace is supposed to delete the previous character and Delete is supposed to delete the following character. Linux and XFree86 come configured with both the Backspace and Delete keys generating Delete.
You can fix this by using any one of the xmodmap, xkeycaps, or loadkeys programs to make the key in question generate the BackSpace keysym instead of Delete.
You can also fix it by having a .motifbind file; see the man page for VirtualBindings(3).
Note: Don't use the *XmText.translations or *XmTextField.translations resources to attempt to fix this problem. If you do, you will blow away Netscape Navigator's other text-field key bindings.
video/mpeg; mpeg_play %s
to
video/mpeg; mpeg_play %s >/dev/null 2>&1
The .netscape-preferences file must always be under $HOME, but Netscape's other files may be placed anywhere.
The second way is to use the -ncols command-line option (or the maxImageColors resource) to limit the number of color cells Netscape will attempt to allocate. The lower the number, the lower the quality of images displayed in Netscape, but the more cells will be left for other applications. 200 is probably a good choice. The default is 0, meaning Netscape will allocate as many colors as it can.)
Warning:
Name : menuBar
Class: XmRowColumn
Illegal mnemonic character; Could not convert X KEYSYM to a keycode
By default, Motif binds the key F10 to a command that activates the menubar. Unfortunately, if your keymap doesn't contain an F10 keysym, Motif will whine at you about it instead of doing the sensible thing and simply ignoring that binding.
The easiest workaround is to use either the xmodmap or xkeycaps programs to make there be an F10 key on your keyboard somewhere. Just pick some other function key that you don't use and put it there...
| -help | to show this message. |
| -version | to show the version number and build date. |
| -display dpy | to specify the X server to use. |
| -geometry =WxH+X+Y | to position and size the window. |
| -visual id-or-number | to use a specific server visual. |
| -install | to install a private colormap. |
| -no-install | to use the default colormap. |
| -ncols N | when not using -install, set the maximum number of colors to allocate for images. |
| -mono | to force 1-bit-deep image display. |
| -iconic | to start up iconified. |
| -xrm resource-spec | to set a specific X resource. |
| -remote command | to execute a command in an already-running Netscape process. See the X Remote Control Specification for more details. |
| -id window-id | the id of an X window to which the -remote commands should be sent; if unspecified, the first window found will be used. |
| -raise | whether following -remote commands should cause the window to raise itself to the top (this is the default.) |
| -noraise | the opposite of -raise: following -remote commands will not auto-raise the window. |
Arguments which are not switches are interpreted as either files or URLs to be loaded.
Warning: Actions not found: kill-selection, kill-to-end-of-line, unkill
The problem is that there is junk in your resource database: an invalid resource setting has been made. It would appear that the most common cause of this warning is that BSDI 1.1 comes with a sample resource file which contains the aforementioned illegal setting. On the BSD/OS 1.1 CD-ROM, the default .Xresource file (from /usr/share/skel/) contains these lines:
! definitions for the Text widget
*Text.Translations: #override \
Button1<Btn2Down>: extend-end(CLIPBOARD)\n\
Ctrl<Key>W: delete-previous-word()\n\
Meta<Key>k: kill-selection()\n\
Ctrl<Key>U: beginning-of-line()\
kill-to-end-of-line()\n\
Meta<Key>u: unkill()\n\
The parts mentioning Meta<Key>k, Ctrl<Key>U,
and Meta<Key>u are illegal. If you have similar lines in
your resource files (.Xresources or .Xdefaults),
delete them.
Some people have success using the termify program to modify the Netscape executable to speak to TERM directly, but it doesn't work for a lot of people, and we do not recommend it.
You might consider looking in to TIA (``The Internet Adapter'', a commercial product from another company with whom we are not affiliated) for what appears to be a more robust solution to the problems that TERM attempts to solve.
This is a bug in SGI's extensions to their Motif library, and only occurs if all of the above conditions are met. The only side-effect of those error messages is that the popup menu on the file requester doesn't appear. Other than that, they are ignorable.
If you don't turn on useEnhancedFSB, or if you use the default visual, this problem will not appear.
Rumor has it that SGI has fixed this bug, but that the fix was not done in time for Irix 5.3. Perhaps they have a patch for it by now.
To create the default preferences file, simply run Netscape once, set the preferences, quit, and copy the .netscape-preferences file that was written in your home directory. You will then need to edit that file and remove all of the user-specific lines. This is important! In particular, remove the lines containing your name and email address, and any lines referring to files in your home directory (the history and bookmarks files, the newsrc directory, the signature, the cache directory, and the personal MIME types and mailcap files.)
Bear in mind that it is not currently possible for multiple users to share the same bookmarks, cache, or history files.
The cache directory should go in some directory owned by the user: /tmp/ is not a good choice, since that is shared by multiple users, and on some systems, is cleared at each reboot (which would make the persistent disk cache worthless -- it would then be non-persistent!) If you want to disable the disk cache by default, simply set its size to zero in the preferences.
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