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- Netscape has a list of known problems in their online
- release notes, please refer to those release notes for
- further details. The URL for those problems is:
- http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.0/relnotes/unix-
- 4_06.html#Issues
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- Other problems that we have found specific to the SGI
- release that may also exist in other releases are as
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- +o When netscape is started automatically by the desktop
- via session management, the fonts in java applets may
- become unreadable. Quitting and restarting netscape
- will fix the problem. Or you can define the environment
- variable MOZILLA_HOME to be /var/netscape/communicator
- in your login initialization.
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- +o The SGI customized mailcap and mime.types files are not
- read by this release of the browser so certain IRIX
- specific programs won't automatically launch when the
- web server sends that file. To workaround this problem
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- llllnnnn ----ssss ////vvvvaaaarrrr////nnnneeeettttssssccccaaaappppeeee////ccccoooommmmmmmmuuuunnnniiiiccccaaaattttoooorrrr////mmmmaaaaiiiillllccccaaaapppp ////uuuussssrrrr////llllooooccccaaaallll////lllliiiibbbb////nnnneeeettttssssccccaaaappppeeee////mmmmaaaaiiiillllccccaaaapppp
- llllnnnn ----ssss ////vvvvaaaarrrr////nnnneeeettttssssccccaaaappppeeee////ccccoooommmmmmmmuuuunnnniiiiccccaaaattttoooorrrr////mmmmiiiimmmmeeee....ttttyyyyppppeeeessss ////uuuussssrrrr////llllooooccccaaaallll////lllliiiibbbb////nnnneeeettttssssccccaaaappppeeee////mmmmiiiimmmmeeee....ttttyyyyppppeeeessss
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- +o While Netscape documents how to eliminate the use of a
- disk cache by setting the cache size to zero, Java,
- JavaScript, and Plugins all need local cache files in
- order to function properly. A zero size cache will
- cause the browser to crash periodically when running.
- The workaround is simply to not specify a zero size
- disk and/or memory cache, a one meg cache is enough to
- work around this problem.
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- +o When launching multiple instances of netscape from the
- same user account on a single machine you will get a
- dialog box telling you that a lock file exists. If you
- ignore this dialog box then you won't be able to save
- anything to the disk cache and plugins will not
- function properly. The proper thing to do is to create
- a new browser window by using the "File->New->Navigator
- Window" menu item.
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- +o Many of the shortcuts do not work like CTRL-F (for Find
- in Page) though they do work off the menu bar.
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- +o Due to some problems in the cache, some HTML pages may
- not display properly. To fix the display try hitting
- the "Reload" button or hold down the "Shift-key" and
- press the "Reload" button to force the reload from the
- server. Usually this will cause the page to display
- properly.
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- +o The "Guide" menu and several other buttons are
- initialized to access the most current version of these
- documents from Netscape Communications Corporation's
- World Wide Web site. If you can not access these
- sites, make sure that you are not sitting behind a
- firewall. Contact your systems administrator for more
- information on firewalls and how to configure the
- browser to get thru the firewall. If your machine is
- directly connected to the Internet, then this will not
- be a problem for you.
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- +o If your system is configured for a Japanese environment
- the Xt text entry widget may not function properly.
- Try adding the following to your .Xdefaults or
- Xresources file to work around this problem:
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- NNNNeeeettttssssccccaaaappppeeee****pppprrrreeeeeeeeddddiiiittttTTTTyyyyppppeeee:::: NNNNoooonnnneeee
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- +o If when navigating the web you download an image or
- movie and it brings up a save dialog, make sure that
- your system preferences for the location of the mailcap
- and mime.types files are the correct ones. Very old
- Netscape Navigator beta images available on the network
- saved preferences for the location of the mailcap and
- mime.types files as "/usr/local/lib/mosaic". This is
- the incorrect location and will cause several players
- not to run properly. User's must verify that the
- system defaults for the mailcap and mime.types files
- are pointing to "/var/netscape/communicator". Making
- this change will most likely cause the player to
- function properly.
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- +o If when viewing images using the external imgview
- viewer you get an error dialog saying it can't open a
- file "-nofork" then you have an older version of the
- ImageTools. You will need to up upgrade to IL version
- 3.1 or later. This product is available on SGI's
- software download site on the web.
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- +o Navigator Lite still requires that the Java JIT DSO be
- installed in /usr/local. It is the last remaining file
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- +o There are some cases of DNS lookup when the separate
- dns_helper application isn't used. In these cases a
- failed DNS lookup will hang the rest of the application
- waiting for a timeout from the lookup.
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- +o Navigator Lite is not designed to run multiple
- instances of the browser for a single user due to lock
- contention with the bookmarks file, cache, and several
- other databases. It's best to run a single instance
- then pop up new browsers from within that instance
- using CTRL-N.
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- +o When mouse dragging over the pulldown bookmarks menu,
- the line separators will sometimes vanish and repaint
- themselves.
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- +o If the user's identity doesn't match the user's
- personal address book card, then the settings on the
- address book card aren't remembered.
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- +o When saving the bookmarks from the bookmark menu
- sometimes the UID and GID for the created file are
- bogus id's.
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- +o If your ~/.netscape/preferences.js file becomes
- corrupted then Navigator Lite may crash on startup.
- Look at that file and verify that all directives are on
- a single line with no newlines in any ()'s.
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- +o Some Netscape plugins may cause corruption of the
- $HOME/.netscape/plugin-list. Look at the URL
- about:plugins to see which plugin might have corrupted
- the plugin list. To workaround the problem, try
- removing the plugin and the $HOME/.netscape/plugin-
- list, start up Netscape and verify that the plugin-list
- file isn't corrupted, then reload the plugin and
- restart Netscape.
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- +o If the user's home directory is NFS mounted from
- another machine and the user logs out, the client
- process may not get killed and may need to be killed by
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- These are problems specific to the Chinese and Korean
- localized version of the client.
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- +o This release includes only the Simplified Chinese
- version. Traditional Chinese version is not included
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- +o This release of Netscape Navigator Lite cannot handle
- javascript-enabled scrolling of Chinese and Korean
- characters. On web sites with such scrolling Chinese
- or Korean text, Netscape will generate continuous error
- messages blocking the normal use of the browser.
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- +o Korean and Chinese characters on Microsoft FrontPage-
- generated html pages do not always show up properly in
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