netscape 4.73 and 6.2 at the same time

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Mon May 17 11:28:04 PDT 2004


On Sunday 03 March 2002 03:09 pm,Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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. 

Yes, I'll try this.

> 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.

The statistics that I've seen indicate that an enormous majority use IE 
 :-(
Supposedly opera follows HTML 4.0 to the letter so I should be OK if I 
follow the rules.

Thanks!

-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd rather be sailing"



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