Re: tlug: REdHat shenanigans w/Netscape

[shimpei@example.com]

You(Scott M. Stone) wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dennis McMurchy wrote:
> > > Has anyone else, for example, noticed that the ~/.netscape/preferences.js
> > > file will get overwritten and Netscape will start up as though for the
> > > first time, having forgotten all of your settings.  Fortunately, I'm
> I had it happen to me once under my bastardized TL 3.x but it had nothing
> to do with any RPM package, since I've been compiling everything by hand
> on this box since May... so I don't think RPM is at fault (but it might be
> something that RPM does that is also done by 'make install'...?)
> 
> HOWEVER, it happened to me at a time when I wasn't even upgrading netscape
> - the mail reader died, as it is prone to do, and I had to sig9 netscape.
> Which is usually OK.  But not this time.  Lost all my settings, bookmarks,
> etc.. not sure why to this day.  This was with netcape v4.6 btw.

Netscape seems to do Bad Things to its own pref file from time to time
as it crashes. When Netscape starts crashing on me too often, my
standard remedy is to delete preferences.js; this usually restores
Netscape to its original not-quite-too-unstable-for-comfort status.
I've been doing this for as long as I can remember, and it still works
with 4.7.

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