SillyDog701

[leyens]

I have just downloaded Netscape 9 and it looks great.javascript:emoticon(':)')
Smile However, I cannot get it to open my default email program which is in Netscape 7.2. All of the other programs on my computer accept this as the default. Somewhere I must have named Mozilla, because that is what it opens to send a link. How do I change that?

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[James]

You mention Mozilla and Netscape 7. When you installed NS 9, did you install it to a different folder and did you create a new profile? If not, they will share one profile and you're going to have problems. At least that is my understanding. You might begin by creating a new profile for NS 9, making it your default browser and then seeing whether or not NS 7's e-mail will open links in NS 9. Again, I could be wrong since I don't like creating more than one profile and hence I never carry two Netscape programs at the same time that could have a profile conflict.

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[Fulvio]

I am adding, in part to James' post. In first place Netscape9 is a satandalone browser only, while Netscape7.x is a suite of browser+mail+more. If you open Mozilla, which version is it? Mozillas are no longer being developed like NS7.2. The trend is to go to standalone browser and standalone Mail (at this point, Mozilla Thunderbird). It is a bad idea to work from a browser only with a suite, because the moment you open its mail, the browser in the suite will take over.
I don't have Netscape7.2, but I know that there is no way that there may be a conflict with the profiles. You say

All of the other programs on my computer accept this as the default.

. Like what other programs?

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[sussane]

i couldn't get netscape mail working after i uninstalled it..

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[Fulvio]

i couldn't get netscape mail working after i uninstalled it..

What do you mean? Which netscape mail, and, uninstalling what? But, if you uninstalled NS7.2, and installed 9.0b1, it makes sense, in view of the fact NS9 has no mail.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

[trpldpr]

I have been using the 7.2 email/browser suite for several years. All OK. In the last 2 or 3 weeks somtimes the browser would stop and an error message "Netscape must stop now" or something like that would appear. Followings the pop ups, it finally recommended that the browser was bad, that there was no fix and that I should download 9.0. I downloaded 9.0 without much trouble but I now find that if I have an email with an embedded link that when I open it, it opens in the 7.2 browser, not the 9.0 browser. So I still have the error problem that I was trying to get rid of. Does anyone know how to get links to open in the 9.0 browser? If this can't be fixed should I remove 9.0 and reload 7.2 from the archives? I now have both 7.2 (which I need for email) and the 9.0 browser loaded. Any help will be appreciated.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[Somedude]

Do you have 9.0 set as the default browser, or is 7.2 still your default? That might be your problem.

~SD

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[Fulvio]

To expand on what SD said, NS9 is a browser only, while NS7.2 is a browser+mail. If NS9 is selected as default, it will work fine, but no sooner you try to go to mail, you are out of NS9. NS7.2 mail is tightly connected with its browser part, so, effectively, you are no longer using NS9, whether it is default or not. It does not work very well to have one program for browser, and a suite like NS7.2 for mail.
Netscape is working on a Mail only program, which will be called Mercury. After that there will be no further conflict, or, you can get Thunderbird, a standalone mail upon which Mercury will be developed.
On installation, you can select to import the Mail settings from NS7.2. It will work as well as your mail worked in 7.2. If you have a problem, it may be passed on.

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[trpldpr]

Thanks for your insight. I can't believe Netscape would put out a browser that's incompatible with their latest email program (7.2). Do you think that I should delete NS9.0 and just stick with 7.2? Do you think if I reloaded 7.2 it would fix whatever is wrong with my current 7.2 Browser? What about downloading a Firefox email+browser? Is there one? If so, what # is it? Thanks for your help.

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[PaulD]

There was a [sdt=13409]recent thread[/sdt] that had a similar question.
And here is a [sdp=84688]summary[/sdp] of Mozilla browser and email products.

Depending upon who replies to you, the current recommended choices are:
- Firefox as browser, and Thunderbird as email client (my preference).
- Seamonkey, a suite - both browser and email. This is akin to Netscape 7.

For insight and discussions you may scan/skim through the threads on ths forum.

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[Somedude]

Thanks for your insight. I can't believe Netscape would put out a browser that's incompatible with their latest email program (7.2). Do you think that I should delete NS9.0 and just stick with 7.2? Do you think if I reloaded 7.2 it would fix whatever is wrong with my current 7.2 Browser? What about downloading a Firefox email+browser? Is there one? If so, what # is it? Thanks for your help.

If you don't really need anything 9.0 has to offer, then uninstall it and stick with 7.2.

~SD

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

[richard mitnick]

I would like someone, anyone, to tell me why anyone is still using and dealing with NS 7.2. If one were to install and open SeaMonkey, and have one shot of a good single malt scotch or a glass of a good French Red, one would never know the difference. But, one would be up to date and secure, neither of which is true in NS 7.2.

>>RSM

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[Fulvio]

Richard,
you made a good point which will escape many "diehard" netscapers. It is the name, and nothing more. I can rename the Seamonkey shortcut: Netscape, and even use the NS icons. Still Seamonkey, but it would make a lot of people happy.
As for trpldpr's problems. In first place, i have not heard of the specific behavioyr of NS7.2 which gives those problems. It may be an extention, or Theme which is not compatible.
Who said that NS9 is incompatible with 7.2 mail? May be I missed that. The fact is that 7.2 is an integrated suite of mail, browser, and more, so everything remains in it, or to put itanother way, if 7.2 mail is opened, a link will open in 7.2. There is no reason to venture outside a Suite, unless something goes wrong. with standalones like IE, NS9, or Firefox, you can mix and match, and have your own mail client. The concept has not been grasped by many people who think that it is possible to separate NS7 and earlier, Mozilla and Seamonkey browsers from the same mails. They are integrated, and the split cannot be done.
Reloading 7.2 would probably accomplish nothing, but should you care to continue that way, it will not matter. 99.9% of the problems lie in either an extention, or in the profile, or incompatible plugins. All this stuff would be unaffected by uninstalling the Suite.

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