Netscape 4.04 on UNIX platforms

• General information
• Contacts
• From the previous Netscape versions to Netscape 4.04
• FAQ
• Remarks

General information

Since May 5th 1998, CERN default Web browser is Netscape 4.04.
This means that executing the command netscape on a CERN UNIX machine will start that version of the browser.
Netscape 2.02 will remain available to provide users with a lighter version of the browser in case they feel the resources required by the default version are too many.
Netscape 3.01 is still available but we are planning to drop this version in the next weeks.

To run a version different from the default one, enter:
netscape -version < version number >
where < version number > could be:
2.02 or light for Netscape 2.02,
3.01 or beta or gold for Netscape 3.01 .

On the UNIX machines here at CERN only the Navigator and the Messenger components of Netscape Communicator are supported.

Launching the netscape command will run a script (the wrapper) which defines some user's settings and force some defaults if the command is run for the first time.
To display the command line options available for the wrapper, please enter
netscape -help .

Contacts

From the previous Netscape versions to Netscape 4.04

FAQ

Remarks

We are trying to do our best in order to fix the problems some users are facing but please understand that sometimes we don't get any support from Netscape and that this makes everything slower.