Re: Netscape Navigator 4.79?

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote:

> Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:03:36AM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >
> >>Can the old Netscape Navigator RPMs from RH 7.3 be used in RH 8.0?  The
> >>jag-offs at my bank still refuse to support Netscape 6/7/Mozilla for
> >>online banking.
> >
> >
> > Have you tried fudging the user-agent? I would think anything that
> > would work with NS4.x should work with Mozilla (can't see any reason
> > for NS6/7 IMO). You can do this with Mozilla, or privoxy (on CD).
>
>
> You're neglecting another reason to use it - speed.  On my PII 233, 64
> Mb laptop, it was the only usable browser.  On my Athlon 1800, it feels
> like the good old days when we first got PA-RISC-based workstations at
> work.  ;-)
>
> Matthew, NS 4.79 works fine on 8.0 for me.  Here are the packages it
> requres:
>
> enoch:[/tmp]rpm -q netscape-communicator --requires|grep ^l|xargs rpm -q
> --whatprovides|sort -u
> XFree86-libs-4.2.0-72
> compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
> compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.110
> glibc-2.2.93-5
>
> Regards,
> Paul

Thanks for all the replies.  That's one less reason not to upgrade.

-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs@clemson.edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs



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