"Adventures in Browsers"

[MrsLop]

Morning All,

Is it possible to run two browsers simultaneous on one Mac?

Cox has its own page set up with IE.  I have Netscape with Navigator.  

I was having a problem downloading  an Adobe pdf file, even though I had downloaded the correct reader to my OS 8.6 and had Stuffit.  When I read the Read Me notes for Adobe, it said that if you had multiple Browsers, you needed to specify which one would receive the Reader or make a copy and copy to the other folder.

If anyone out there knows how I can go about finding this information without openning up a Pandoras Box and wreaking havoc with my system please let me know.

Until I can get this figured out, my Personal LaserWriter 320 is refusing to print any pdf files.  I suspect the multiples of browsers to be the problem,but I can't be sure.

  Myrna

[kelly]

Yes you can have different Browsers.

Some people have four or five.

I don't know Netscape. What you're talking about is a "Plug In".

You might just be able to Copy the one in IE's Plug In Folder to Netscape's Plug In Folder.

Someone else can tell you.

Dreambird was our Netscape "expert" but she may have retired from this.

[MrsLop]

Good Morning kelly,

I have done several downloads in order to enable Netscape.  Adobe, Acrobat, Stuffit.  My Heaven, there are so many parts and steps to all of this.
   It's enough to drive me to distraction.  

Thanks for the information.  I am awaiting the arrival of some reference books from beacher.  Perhaps, I will find the elusive answers to some of my questions in them.

I am resisting the temptation of "fixing" anything until I can get some answers.  I fear, that in my haste to "fix" things I have mucked things up a bit in the recent past.  I really do accept the responsibility for that.  

  Myrna

[jepinto]

Morning Myrna!

I'd redownload the Reader Installer, and reinstall.  When the dialog boxz comes up, saying Reader has found more than one browser, which one would you like to install the plugin for?-or some such wording direct it to your Netscape folder.

Yes, even with the problems caused by the multiple installations of IE/OE.  It makes for a clean transition.

The instructions in the gray box "Step One" will allow you to download the version for your OS.  Note that Adobe recommends 5.05 for OS 8.6 & 9.0 and version 5.1 for OS 9.1 through 10.2.1 and version 6 for OS 10.2.2 and up.

[MrsLop]

jennie,

I will have to try to do this.  Right now though, my husband is still trying to get me to get out for some fresh air.  I have a plant which has been awaiting my ministrations, don't laugh and no pun intended, but it has a cracked pot.  Anyway, I need to find and purchase a brand new pot.  Since the economic downturn, my favorite stores have closed.   My husband is using this cracked pot excuse to try to get me out and about.  This computer thing has dominated all of my time for almost two weeks.  I know he's right -so I'm off to track down the correct container.  Maybe I'll get some other stuff done that has been sitting on the back burner here on the home front.  It may help me to empty my mind for now, and come back refreshed.  I'll be in better shape to handle the "Adventures" ahead in Macland.

Myrna  

[Gregg]

I use two different Netscape versions now, because the old one does poorly at this site, and the new one does everything else poorly. It's not such a pain, as I usually don't find time to come here from home.

[Thomas S. England]

I've had as many as 5 different browsers on my machine at times, but these days I rarely leave Camino/Navigator since it does it all so well.

I have IE, Safari and iCab also available now in OS 10.2.6. iCab, incidentally, has just gone with the flow and added tabs. Back in my OS 9 days, iCab was my first choice.

[MrsLop]

Hello Gregg,

RHPConsult talked me through most of the Netscape Installation (mostly the default version).  I am on v4.79.
I found, however, that the TS screen was almost unreadable.  My eyesight has been somewhat out of focus since Chemotherapy.  It was so bad that I dragged a trashed version of IE v5 out of the garbage so that I could see the TS Board.  Now that I changed to Communicator, I don't have the problems of crashing, that I did when I was using IE and Outlook.  Well, the screen looks great using IE.  I get a message asking me if I want to set IE as a default browser.  I just choose No and I get to the Internet anyway.  

What does that "Default Browser" question mean?

 
Myrna

[MrsLop]

Thomas,

I guess nothing exceeds like excess!  Were you just trying them all out just to determine which you preferred?

Did you formally set all these up through your ISP or using some kind of set-up assistant on the Mac?  How do you do this multiple choice thing?

What is the advantage of having more than one Browser?

Can this be done using broadband which is what I have through Cox (High Speed Internet)?  I think during set up I had to use the TCP/IP.  I believe that there is also a selection for setting a default at the bottom of the form.  

Do you have to add a lot of information and do you have to list all the browsers you have in use?  

Lastly, do you have to tell your ISP, in my case Cox, how many browsers you use?

 

Myrna

[Gregg]

Myrna, the Default Browser is just whichever one you want it to use by default. If you choose yes, you won't get that question the next time. Whatever dial-up mechanism you're using (PPP?) will go to an internet page using a browser of your choosing. You can also set what page is first loaded within the browser's preferences, your "home page", like home room in high school, the first place you go.

[kelly]

Myrna. What Browser you use is none of their business.

When they say they will  "support" certain browsers it's

just the ones they feel like helping you with.

Browsers are independent of the ISP.

They work, in theory, with International Standards.

You can use whatever works with your machine and Operating System.

And don't have to tell or ask anyone.

E-Mail is different.

You need the cooperation of your ISP to support certain E-Mail Applications.