profman wrote:I've really been intrigued by all this talk about Mozilla, and I'd like to add a stable build of Mozilla to my Win98 system that already has NS7 on it. I realize so far that I should NEVER share profiles between the two and that they seems to share the file mozver.dat (so I should not touch this file).
Some questions are:
1. What is the most stable Mozilla version out there now? (1.2b?)
2. Will this affect the fat registry.dat file inside the Mozilla folder?
3. Are there any other major concerns, complications, or precautions that I should take?
I really would appreciate your input as I am a very cautious person and like to get all the data I can before trying to experiment with Mozilla. I won't hold anyone accountable if I hose my system in the process, although, from what I can tell, this should not be a big concern (
unless I set up 2,844 different profiles like someone who shall remain nameless
)
Hey, watch your language! I may have had more than 2,844 different profiles, since NS6 showed up, but I know what I am doing. Not always, but I learned that it is not a bad idea to hose something, although I am very careful about messing up my computer.
Now, you are tempting me with that mozver.dat file. I open it with Wordpad, and it contains the entire history of Netscape and Mozilla. I used to delete, as recommended it that file in the early and painful days of 6.0, but I did not even know that the thing existed. I don't even know where it is, some place floating around in the Windows folder.
Now to answer your question:1. who knows? But I would say that the longer that one build is in use the more likely that it will be stabilized. I got Moz1.3a, yesterday, so 1.2 should be ok, even the nightlies have been amazingly stable. And, I think that they should be, because the changes being made now are not so great in scope.
2. the fat Registry.dat file is fattened by NS7. And Mozillas are not affected. The developers have fixed the problem by having the plugins reg.dat. It was a case of the plugins writing information over and over. You could have a perfectly slim Registry.dat file, if you have only one Netscape7. All you need to do is to open Newtscape, and with Netscape open, minim ize it, open Windows Explorer, and go to that Mozilla folder, find the overdone file, and delete it. Then, close Netscape, and you will find a 1Kb Registry.dat file. Context-click/Properties, and check Read only. That file won't grow, but you cannot be free to create Profiles, and remove them. But this may apply only to a multi-user like me. I have five profiles in action, now.
3. No concern, as long as you create a separate profile. Mozilla will install ,if you let it do it, in a mozilla.org subfolder of the Program Files.
But, you can let the Registry.dat file grow. My files went past 108Mb, and it was getting ridiculous.
Anyway, information about what I said is in Ramona's Netscape Solutions.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0
