Hi Jeff, many thanks for your input.
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Goesele, 2002-Mar-05 04:00 +0100: > > I have purged all netscape and communicator packages and installed > > 4.79 from the netscape site into a different location. (Some of you > > recommended so: Thanks!) But it didn't help: Still every time I try to > > enable javascript or to enter a secure site netscape freezes if run > > as user. (No problem if run as root.) > Could be a permissions issue. This is what I suspect. > Did you install 4.79 into /usr/local as root and then install the > java plugin into the /netscape/plugins directory also as root? > Then, when you run netscape as a user it ought to work. It's not a java but a javascript (and https ...) issue. For the 4.77 Debian package I had installed netscape and and netscape-java as root, and all the files and directories in /usr/lib/netscape seem to belong to root and group root. (Which I guess is as it should be.) For 4.79 I just installed the tar.gz file from netscape (comes with java?) as root into /opt/netscape and nothing more. In this case the permissions are strange: Most files and directories belong to some non-existing user with id 8482 and to group uucp. I changed it all to root/root - with no avail, as I expected. I suspect that for https and javascript (and what else?) netscape needs some access to additional files or devices outside of the netscape and ~/.netscape directories. But I don't have any idea what that might be. Very strange everything, anyway. Thanks again. Andreas Goesele
