Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:19:19 -0800 From: "Scott R." <reverend@sfmidimafia.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org> Cc: trevor@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 7.02? Message-ID: <3E78DED7.1060806@sfmidimafia.com> References: <3E78B6F0.5040505@sfmidimafia.com> <20030319125617.S677@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Scott R. wrote: > >>[please cc me in any replies as I'm not currently subscribed to this >>mailing list. Thank you.] >> >>Hello, >> >>Even though the port for Netscape 7 is marked as "forbidden", I >>installed it anyway as it is the only browser that currently has all the >>features and functionality that I need. I've noticed that the port has >>not been updated in a while and that Netscape 7 is now up to Netscape >>7.02. > > The maintainer is loathe to update it because the existing port took a lot > of hacking to get into shape for our ports collection, and subsequent > releases didn't have all the parts in one place, making it a lot more > difficult to update. (At least that's my understanding.) Ah. That would explain it then. Thank you... > Personally, I've started using the netscape installer. It installs > everything into /usr/local/netscape, so it's pretty well behaved in terms > of install/deinstall. The only thing I don't like is that you must install > AIM in 7.02. If you don't, the skin rendering gets confused, and you end > up with a totally blank page (no controls, no nothing). Heh. I'm so used to using the ports collection that running the installer didn't even really occur to me! I'll give that a shot and see what happens. I'm also going to give Mozilla a shot as soon as it gets updated to 1.3 as I am somewhat interested in running a "native" web browser and I do like Mozilla. Thank you, Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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