Netscape problems (fwd)

[sstirlin at gis.net (Scott Stirling)]

"John Chambers,,,781-647-1813" wrote:
> This is something I've done routinely, but so far  I've  never  found
> any  version  of  Netscape  on any machine that honors it.  I've also
> found that setting the font size to 18 or 24 points  doesn't  usually
> affect those tiny fonts at all; it only seems to affect text in which
> the page doesn't set the font size.  But if the page  sets  the  font
> size,  then  Netscape  always  honors the page's font size, no matter
> what I do with my settings.

Well, try my tried and true settings and see what happens.  Use
http://www.slashdot.org as a reference.  With these settings, Slashdot
should look pretty reasonable (not too big, not too small).  I have my
17" monitor set to 1152x864 at 24bit color, so adjust accordingly.

Here are my Netscape "Fonts" settings:

Edit-->Preferences-->Appearance-->Fonts

Fonts and Encodings:

For the Encoding: [Western (iso-8859-1)]
Variable Width Font: Times (Adobe)
Size: 18
Allow Scaling: [not checked]

Fixed Width Font: [Courier (Adobe)]
Size: 18
Allow Scaling: [not checked]

Sometimes a document will provide its own fonts
< > . . .
< > . . .
<x> Use document-specified fonts, including dynamic fonts 
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As for the Messenger problem you're having, try starting it some
different ways and see what happens.  You can have it set to start on
Netscape's start-up by setting that preference in the "Appearance"
preferences.  You can try it with Alt+2 when Netscape is started.  But
this crashing shouldn't happen anyway.  Maybe try the latest version of
Netscape (4.7).

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There's a file in ~/.netscape called "preferences.js".  That's where all
your settings get saved.  You could look around through that and
hand-hack it if you really don't think Netscape is saving your
preferences.

-- 
Scott Stirling
West Newton, MA
sstirlin at gis.net
http://www.gis.net/~sstirlin
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