Netscape 7.02 Reinstall

[jj4 at sympatico.ca]

Over time I just found Netscape less and less usable.  Mine crashed 
seldom but when it did it would break OS9.  It went slower progressivly 
and I have not found an Export feature for the Address Book in it.  But 
these are problems not out of place with any frequently used program in 
OS9.

What really drove me away from Netscape was:
* That damnable Activation that never stopped unless I actually signed 
up.
Netscapes website was a Cookie laying Hell to navigate for information. 
  They layed cookies that last 20 years.
* I had a really hard time finding the Email Us for Netscape on their 
website.
It was so big with stuff I did not use and was not fast.
* At least once a year it told me it wanted to Import its Prefs - 
unfortunately always the prefs from v4.x instead of the current version.
* They no longer put the Netscape Prefs in the Prefs folder - but 
somewhere else I never found.
* I have never been able to install a newer version of Netscape without 
losing some or all the information already stored in the current 
version.

The biggest reasons start with a *, the others were just a pain.

Consequently, as soon as I could get OSX 10.2 on my computer I used 
Mail and Safari.  I still have Netscape on there but I only use it to 
see pages Safari cannot.  Really a shame because I liked Netscape allot 
- just over time they wanted more and more information and control.  
They made it difficult to do anything but continue using Netscape.  You 
say they want your money - LOL

You will eventually bolt as I did, so just find how to export all that 
info.

You can export Bookmarks to HTML easily.  Anyone know how to export the 
rest?

jj

On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 08:17  AM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:

> Netscape 7.02 Reinstall
>
> Seems I have developed a problem in Netscape 7.02.  After trying
> everything this fairly experienced user knows, I've come to the
> conclusion that I must do a reinstall to get rid of the bug.  I have
> downloaded a fresh version of 7.02 into another folder and am now
> waiting while searching for any info on doing this.  Yes, I found lots
> of invitations to pay Netscape to help, but I would rather not.
>
> Yes, I'm still using OS 9.2.2 on this desktop G4 Sawtooth 500 MHz 1.5
> gig of ram. plenty of disk space.  The bug is the freezing of netscape
> at odd times, and more often when trying to quit the program.  Yes, my
> thousands of old emails are important to me, both the sent and the
> received.  No small portion of which are related to this and similar
> previous lists.
>
> Any help, or direction to help will be most welcome.