Netscape Navigator

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Craigwd_2000 Author

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Netscape Navigator

I have a LC 580 running Mac OS 7.6.1. It installed Netscape Navigator as part of the Mac OS 7.6.1 installation routine. Whenever I try to launch Netscape Navigator it unexpected quits with a error of Type 2. Cyberdog 2.0 almost works too but I keep getting Open Transport errors related to networking & memory. What do I need to do to get my LC 580 online? Should I consider downloading a newer version of Netscape Navigator? I have a Sonic Systems comm slot ethernet card installed & the LC 580 has 52 MB of RAM. I had to extract the comm slot ethernet driver from the Mac OS 7.6 Install Tome to even get this far by using TomeViewer. I also found a Apple Knowledge Base article related to the Netscape Navigator issue but none of the solutions in the article worked for me.

refurbished 17 iMac G5 1.8 GHz & refurbished 12 PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 512 & 768 MBs of RAM

Posted on Apr 10, 2007 11:05 AM

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Texas Mac Man

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Apr 10, 2007 5:46 PM in response to Craigwd_2000

You might try increasing, using Get Info, the Preferred memory assigned to Netscape. Here's a link of some other older browsers you might try. Mac Web Browsers, Present and Past http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html
Keep in mind that most of the older browsers will probably not render the web pages very good, and you will probably have problems accessing pages that require high-level security.

 Cheers, Tom

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Craigwd_2000 Author

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Apr 10, 2007 7:55 PM in response to Texas Mac Man

Are there any advantages to upgrading Netscape Navigator to 4.08? Does the latest version of NCSA Mosaic including NCSA Mosaic Beta 4 work correctly with Open Transport 1.1.2? I read in NCSA Mosaic's User Guide that it requires MacTCP but am wondering if that document is outdated & in need of updating anyway. How do I get Cyberdog to work reliably on 68030/68040 Macs? It runs after I install OpenDoc 1.2.1 & Cyberdog 2.0 itself. The main problem is I keep getting networking related errors about Open Transport malfunctioning somehow whenever I try to open the links to Apple's site from Cyberdog's Notebook. Is there a way to increase the memory allocated to the Open Transport extensions to prevent this? I read about the Netscape Defrost extension in the book Sad Mac, Bombs & Other Disasters And What to do about Them & was wondering how well it actually works or if it helps at all.

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