More 'Netscape' Problems [in 10.2.5]

[sunset]

Knowing that some of you are anti-Netscape, from my last 'issue', I'll appeal to anyone who's using it successfully.  

Still haven't solved the problem of having it coexist on 9.2.2 and X--worked on it again yesterday and it just won't let me use the existing profile I'm using in Jaguar, in 9 even tho' its where it belongs in my Mozilla folder on the 9 boot drive.  

Beyond that there's a new problem and a first time, ever, for this one [in Jaguar].  When I click on a link or bookmark, that's been accessed previously, I'm taken to a blank page, period.  No attempt to load it, nothing showing in the locator box.  A few examples of this that you'll undoubted recognize are "Nisus.com", "Megamacs.com", "Cosco.com" and... when attempting to personalize an ecard on "Hallmark.com", it won't go to the input page.  I can view and choose a card but not access the page to type in the information.

At that point, I have to open Explorer   and have no problem with any of the above sites.  A few nights ago even TS was elusive--couldn't get on it.  Checked the next day to see if others had the same problem but no one posted that they had.  There was also a link on a TS poster's thread that wouldn't go anywhere, either--don't remember whose it was...

Have a G4, dual 500, plenty of RAM and HD space.  I've repaired permissions and emptied the cache in 'N', which it's supposed to do automatically but doesn't.  Neither of those things helped/work.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd   whatever you have to offer.  I'd rather not trash and reinstall the program because I fear it won't adopt the Profile I've got set up and it's using now.  If there's anything I can do, short of that, I'd love to know.          TIA!

[krissel]

This does sound like a pref or cache problem. I don't use Netscape for X so I can't tell you where any system prefs might be but you might try changing the cache settings in the N menu prefs to a different checking routine, like maybe compare to cache "never"  or  conversely "every time".

[sunset]

a lot, Krissel--it's done!  Have always used "once per session" but changed it to 'never', as you suggested.  Will post back after I've tried it for a bit.  BTW, I've got Memory Cache set to '0' and Disk Cache set to '5KB'.  Do either of those settings sound like it might cause a problem??  

Appreciate your thoughts, Laurel

[RHPConsult]

Miscellaneous ramblings, since I'm far, far from anything resembling a Netscape authority (just ask Dreambird!). I just prefer, very, very much, using NS.

I have been running 7.1 (after having started w/Mozilla 1.4 - - post-NS 4.7. on Jaguar and its predecessors, on a Pismo 400, and a G4 DT.

No problem(s) to speak of.

Would it do any good for you to start an entirely new profile - - with an entirely fictitious name - - in, say, Mozilla 1.4 and see if you can get everything you need (bookmarks, addresses et al) freshly/properly imported to get going satisfactorily?

That might finally identify whether you need to reinstall.

I confess to being puzzled why, if you have saved separate copies of address and bookmarks, you find a reinstall so daunting. I've done it before (900+ addresses and so many 100s of bookmarks I'm embarrassed to mention the total!) and it's been painless . . . just as long as you have saved (and stored) in proper format those key files.

Just a thought.  

[kelly]

"100s of Bookmarks."  

[sunset]

Here goes, RHP...      I'll try to explain a couple of things that are happening.

I set up a 'new profile' in 'N/7' in 9 then go to Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings to input any personal info that hasn't been automatically entered correctly as well as the 'Local directory' in Server settings.  That box always has 'directions' to go to the new profile info in the Mozilla folder.  I change that to direct the program to the old and correct profile that has all my 'stuff' in it.

In X, it adopted that profile with no problem.  In 9, the right 'account name' is there but not the mail folders that I've built, only the empty default folders.

Address book:  when attempting to import, the correct file is supposed to be 'pab.na2'.  That's my old one.  The file that has my up-to-date addresses in it is labeled 'abook.mab', which isn't an option to import.  I can't figure that one out at all.  Have no clue as to why the current one isn't 'pab.na2'

Bookmarks aren't a problem--it will allow me to import 'bookmarks.html' from the correct folder.

Now... for the last bit of information:  in Jaguar's 'User' folder, in my 'Home' folder's 'Library' folder is a 'Favorites' folder.  [Hope this makes sense so far??   ]   In that folder is an Alias to my profile in the Mozilla folder in the Documents folder on my 9.2.2 boot partition--the very same one I'm trying to get 'N/7' to use in '9'.

I've never had a difficult time, prior to this, getting it to work.  I cannot imagine or figure out why it won't now.

To answer your question, RHP, the above is the reason I don't want to reinstall in Jaguar to get the elusive sites to load.  If it were using the correct address book file, then I might consider it.  In 9, I've reinstalled a number of times attempting to get it to adopt my profile--no such luck!    I could DL and install the latest 'Mozilla' for 9, in 9 and see if it'll use  the correct profile--maybe I'll give that a shot the next time I'm working in that OS.  That's a good suggestion!!!   for that as well as your response!!!

I, too, have 100's of bookmarks but not nearly the addresses you do.