response 1 of 36:

May 5 16:31 UTC 1995

I'm running it.  Comes up in a few seconds.  But I'm running on a Pentium
90, not a 386.  That could explain the difference.

It hasn't crashed that I can recall.  I do experience an occasional
problem with screen painting in the Windows version:  When I scroll to
a new page using the scroll bar, sometimes the screen will only be
partially updated -- large blank areas, some lines of text having only
the top or bottom portion printed.  Selecting "refresh" from the menu
always corrects the problem.

Also, the PageUp and PageDown keys don't work for me in the Windows
version.

I also run the Linux/X version of Netscape 1.1.  This works fine for me
and doesn't have any of the above-mentioned problems.

response 3 of 36:

May 6 05:43 UTC 1995

        I just timed the Linux/X version of Netscape 1.1N loading in about
seven seconds, on my 486DX2-66.  My experience with Windoze has generally
been that it's pretty slow, and 386s are slow, so I'm not surprized it
took you a while.  As for the crashes, the beta versions of Netscape 1.1
crashed sometimes, but not nearly as often as you described (maybe once an
hour or so).  I haven't had enough experience with the release version yet
to make any statements like that about it yet. 
        You problem with it not loading images is probably a problem with
how you have it configured.  Go to your Options menu and click on "Auto
Load Images."  That should fix it.

response 5 of 36:

May 6 15:11 UTC 1995

So where do I get the release version?

response 7 of 36:

May 7 05:10 UTC 1995

How do I know if I have the realease version already?
Could the crashing be caused from memory problems?

response 9 of 36:

Jul 10 13:08 UTC 1995

I'd like to use Netscape as a browser on my computer to read an html index
for images stored on my hard drive.  My problem is that I'm using a Mac,
and realize that I don't know what a complete file name is & so have no
idea what to refer to in the links to the images.  Same for creating the
index file, although you can "click" open a text file.  Can anyone provide
me with an example or brief explanation? 

response 11 of 36:

Jul 15 19:40 UTC 1995

Yes.  I rediscovered relative links in that if I have the Index file in a
given folder, it will read any links within that folder without concern
about the full file name.  I found that Netscape reads macOS-resident file
addresses in unixese (with / forward slashes) instead of the system ":". 
I also learned that items on the Hard Drive are located on "Hard Drive"
(Doooh!) So a system file name should look something like:  Hard
Drive:Folder Name:file (or Desk Top or exactly whatever the icon/location
is labeled) and substitute to Hard Drive/Folder Name/file as a HTTP
location.  You can set up Netscape to consider any file as home, but I
interrupt the dialing(leaving the Netscape homepage default) and manually
load my index page when the program comes up.  ../ indicates one level up,
but I haven't progressed to the point of needing multiple levels of
folders. 


   I'm able to make a working href to display a pict file image, but so
far cannot get an in-page image to work.  I've gotten as far as loading
the file, but only get a "broken picture" display.  Still, I'm looking
forward to getting a large plunder-of-research assortment of documents and
images organized and accessible once I see the light over a few more
details. 

response 13 of 36:

Dec 20 08:00 UTC 1995

I loaded Netscape 2.0b3 on my office IIci OK - having enough HD space,
but I didn't have enough space on my Powerbook HD for 2.0b3, so I
only "upgraded" to 1.12 from 1.10N. Now the questions is - what is
in that additional 1MB required for 12.0b3 over 1.12, and why do I
need it?

response 15 of 36:

Dec 20 14:31 UTC 1995

Yep, it supports Java, which could explain the extra memory
requirements. Mail and news support is much fancier too. Netscape
2.0 supports the POP mail protocol, which means you can use it to
receive mail as well as send it out. I don't think earlier versions
of Netscape supported POP.
   Netscape seems bent on dominating the internet client market
by making its web browser the Swiss Army Knife of the internet:
At this point it can do http, ftp, gopher, smtp, pop, nntp, java,
and maybe even irc. Plans are underway to support Adobe Acrobat
as well, although I'm not sure that's implemented yet. Anyway,
no wonder it's a big program.
   The current Newsweek has a special section on the Internet,
including a big spread on the Netscape success story and the
people behind it.

response 17 of 36:

Dec 21 07:32 UTC 1995

Say ., the latest version of MacTCP is 2.0.6 (I think). After your
inquiry I went hunting for it in archives, but it isn't to be found.
That is weird. Must be a money maker for Apple. Hmmm...I wonder if
MacTCP is bundled with the systems you can download from ftp.apple.com.

Netscape 2.0b3 is already 2.7MB - even without Java, then. This is
getting ridiculous...

response 19 of 36:

Feb 5 18:31 UTC 1998

Let's recycle this time....

I ran into a puzzle on Netscape Gold 3.0 (for Mac). A small group of
folder bookmarks in the Bookmark menu suddently acquired strange symbols
just to the left, and the contents of the folders did not open. I fooled
around in the bookmarks window for a bit, and found that by moving one
of the culprits in the list, the group of affected folders changed. The
first one in the group seemed to matter the most. I moved it out of the
group and renamed it...and the problem vanished, even after moving it back
into the original place in the list. What was going on?

response 21 of 36:

Mar 23 06:05 UTC 1998

Are you still using Macs? We may be two of the last....

response 23 of 36:

Mar 24 07:11 UTC 1998

I think it is still a billion dollar business....and yet its products
are becoming almost unnoticeable in the multi-billion dollar PC business.
It is quite an amazing phenomenon.