netscape 4.73 and 6.2 at the same time

[Joel Hammer]

I use netscape 4.77 and 6.2 on the same machine. They seem to coexist
nicely.

I really forget how I did it. They reside in different directories and
use different home directories, too.

Are you installing from rpm?

If so, you can test with rpm before you install to look for conflicts.
If you are really paranoid, you might create a new user, and install
6.2 just for that one user. That might avoid some conflicts.

Good luck with your web page. Don't forget about opera and that other one,
whose name escapes me right now (Internet Dominator or something). There
are also a couple of others. lynx among them.

There is software out there that will make sure your web page conforms
to the newest standards, ?HTTP 4 or something. (Sheer ignorance here. I
would just make sure it works with IE.)

BTW, 4.77 seems to be more stable because I don't use javascript in it.

Joel

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:41:40PM -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Hi Gang!
> 
> I'm trying to design a website from the O'Reilly books.  They warn 
> about browser incompatability so I want to make sure my pages render 
> properly on various browsers.  I now (still! ) use netscape 4.73 and 
> konqueror and clearly see differences.  So I'd like to also run 
> netscape 6.2 to be able to check compatability across old and new 
> netscape.  
> If I rpm netscape in, it will (I assume) replace all of the current 
> /opt/netscape directory along with /usr/bin/netscape.  Does anybody 
> know how I might load and label 4.73 and 6.2 as two different versions 
> and run them separately or is this a potential disaster?  For example, 
> I suppose I would have to modify the script /usr/bin/netscape to look 
> in the right places.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tony Alfrey
> tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
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