Installation Notes
You can find installation instructions at the following location:
(http://docs.sun.com) or README file in your NS7 package
Main points about the installation:
* You need 160 Mbytes disk space to install the Netscape[tm] 7.0 SVR4 packages.
* The /opt directory is the default directory, but you can specify an alternate location for the installation.
* You must be root to install the Netscape[tm] 7.0 SVR4 packages.
* Java 2 Standard Edition 1.4.1 (J2SE)
Using previous versions of the J2SE may experience some compatibility
issues. For more information on the Java platform compatibility with previous releases please visit:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/compatibility.html
Checkpatches Script
At the beginning of the Netscape 7.0 installation process, the
checkpatches.sh script runs to determine if all required patches are installed.
If there are any patches missing, the script generates a list of the missing
patches and prompts you to continue or stop the installation process. You should
perform the following steps:
1. Stop the installation process.
2. Download the required patches from the download page.
3. Execute the patchadd command for each missing patch. If you attempt to add
a patch that is older than a previously installed patch, a message informs you of
the status. In this situation, you do not need to install the required patch.
4. When you have installed all the required patches, you can restart the
Netscape 7.0 installation process.
To Uninstall Netscape 7.0
Perform the following actions to uninstall Netscape 7.0:
Note: You must remove optional packages separately.
You installed Netscape 7.0 with SVR4 package,Use pkgrm command to
remove the packages in the following order:
SUNWnspsm
SUNWnsb
SUNWnsm
SUNWnsxp
SUNWGtku
SUNWGtkr
SUNWGlib
SUNWgcmn
If you want to uninstall the optional source library package, run:
# pkgrm SUNWGlibS SUNWGtkS
If you installed Netscape 7.0 with Webstart, run:
% rm -rf <installation directory name>
Debug Messages
You can generate debug messages to help you troubleshoot an application crash.
Action:
In the event of an application crash, restart Netscape 7.0 by typing
the following command in a Terminal window:
% netscape -debug
Debug messages appear in the Terminal window in which Netscape 7.0 was
started. These messages provide valuable information.
Java[tm] Plug-in Proxy Settings
If you set the proxy setting in Java Plug-in to use the Netscape 7.0
browser settings, then the Manual proxy settings of the browser are always
used. If you set the browser to Direct connection to the Internet, Java Plug-
in still uses the Manual proxy settings of the browser. The use of these
proxy settings is only an issue with pages that contain applets.
Action:
The workaround is to uncheck the Java Plug-in proxy setting so that you do
not use the browser settings. Peform the following steps:
1. Change to the following directory:
% cd <installation directory>/java/bin
2. Run the following command:
% ./ControlPanel
3. Click the Proxies tab
4. Uncheck Use browser settings
5. Click Apply
6. Close the window
Switching to CDE Fonts on Mozilla[tm]
1. Put user preferences in your ~/.mozilla/default/prefs.js file:
user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "b&h-lucida sans typewriter-iso8859-1");
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "b&h-lucida sans-iso8859-1");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "b&h-lucida bright-iso8859-1");
You can also specify these preferences in the <installed-directory>/defaults/pref/unix.js file:
pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "b&h-lucida sans typewriter-iso8859-1");
pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "b&h-lucida sans-iso8859-1");
pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "b&h-lucida bright-iso8859-1");
It would be better to specify dt-.... styles here.
2. Modify global.css to specify sans-serif in font family in <installed-
directory>/chrome/skin/modern/global/global.css as follows:
window
{
...
font family : sans-serif;
...
}
When you think the font is too small, please add font size as well.
font size : 14px;
This problem was already reported as Bugid 5236 in bugzilla.
3.Modify css files to specify `inherit' for font family in
skin/modern/global/menulist.css: font family: geneva, arial;
skin/modern/global/tabcontrol.css: font family:charcoal, ms sans serif;
skin/modern/communicator/button.css: font:11px arial;
skin/modern/communicator/button.css: font family:Arial, sans-serif;
skin/modern/aim/findAFriendWizard.css: font family:serif;
skin/modern/aim/findAFriendWizard.css: font family:serif;
skin/modern/global/button.css: font family:charcoal, ms sans serif;
Tip for Improving Graphics Performance
Netscape 7.0 uses the gtk+ graphics library in Solaris for graphics
operations. This library uses a considerable amount of shared memory. You
can achieve better graphics performance by adding the following lines to
your /etc/system file:
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 0x2000000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100
Note: You need to have root access to your machine to edit your /etc/system
file. After you make this change, you must reboot your machine.
Displaying Issue on 8-bit systems
On machines with 8-bit graphics adapters, when launching Mozilla after other
graphical applications are already running and using up available colors, the
color palette is bad. This problem has a bug (160405) on bugzilla, which has a
patch already. For more information, please refer to :
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160405
Print Preview Issue
If you do print preview before page setup or print, you will find that the page
setting maybe not correct. For example, If you set the orientation to landscape
mode. You will see the it's still in protrait mode in print preview. This is because
the browser doesn't load printing setting from preference when preview. But
this problem only exists in print preview. Printing works well and if you do page
setup or printing before preview, you will get the correct result.
For more information, please refer to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167894.
If you decide to try out Netscape 7.0, it will not affect your ability to
use Netscape 4.7x. Both of these applications can be running at the same time. But
we don't recommend you to use 4.7x and 7.0 mail clients simultaneously.
Netscape 4.7x and Netscape 7.0 write the user's information (preferences,
cache files, bookmarks) into different directories:
Netscape 4.7x - under a ~/.netscape directory.
Netscape 7.0 - under a ~/.mozilla directory.
You can use the -installer command line option to import your Netscape 4.x
preferences into Netscape 7.0.
Read the following carefully if you plan to allow use of Netscape 4.7x and
Netscape 7.0 mailers at the same time.
During the migration of your Netscape 4.7x preferences such as bookmarks, proxy
servers and email setup, a copy of preference files, email setup and local
mail folder is made by default. The copy of local mail folders can waste
lot of disk space and may be undesired. We offer you two choices to control
the behavior of local mail folder migration.
Option #1: Re-use the old local mail folders created using Netscape 4.7x. In
addition to saving disk space this allows one to switch back and forth between
4.7x mailer and 7.0 mailer with no effort.
NOTE: There is a possibility of local mail folder data corruption if
Netscape 4.7x and Netscape 7.0 mailers are run at the same time using the
same shared local mail folders.
Option #2: Default. Keep the local mail folders separate from Netscape 4.7x
and 7.0 to allow simultaneous use of Netscape 4.7x and Netscape 7.0
mailers. At the expense of extra disk space and fragmenting the local
mail folder, this option ensures that you never lose any data stored in
local mail folder.
The above choice is given to first time users of Netscape 7.0 who are
migrating from Netscape 4.7x. System administrators and Enterprise
administrators can make this decision for their wider user base. They
can change the default settings for their users and choose to allow them
an ability to override the default (or deny override) using the following
preference settings.
- To set the choice to option #1 and disallow override ability to your users,
edit the file <N7installdir>/defaults/pref/mailnews.js
pref("mail.migration.copyMailFiles", false);
pref("mail.migration.copyMailFilesPopupWindow", false);
- To set the choice to option #1 but allow override to users, edit the
file <N7installdir>/defaults/pref/mailnews.js
pref("mail.migration.copyMailFiles", false);
pref("mail.migration.copyMailFilesPopupWindow", true);
Netscape 4.7x and 7.0 mail clients can be running at the same time.
But we do
not recommend to use them simultaneously, for it may cause
the corruption.
This version of Netscape does not support scripts that require Bidi (Bi-
Directional) orientation such as Arabic and Hebrew.Input Issue
*Very slow to open new window and move focus between Netscape in UTF-8
locale (Bug 4643078) This is a Solaris bug, not a Netscape bug.
In multi-input mode on UTF-8 locale, it is very slow to change focus and
open new window.
Workaround: Use non multi-input mode if possible.
*ATOK12 candidate window hangs with multi-input mode in UTF-8 locale (Bug
4645210) This is Solaris bug, not Netscape bug.
When using ATOK 12, operations on ATOK12 candidate window causes ATOK12
hangs.
Workaround:Use non multi-input mode if possible.
Printing Issue
*Printing does not work for non iso-8859-1 characters.
Printing does not work for non iso-8859-1 characters. All non iso-8859-1
characters are printed as square. (Bug 4474533)
Workaround: Try Xprint printing.
How to use Xprint on Netscape 7.0
start Xprt server on your host. You would need to set additional font path,
which depends on your locale. Please refer Xprt(1) for Xprt.
% /usr/openwin/bin/Xprt :1
Set XPSERVERLIST environment variable
% setenv XPSERVERLIST :1
Start Netscape
% netscape
In the print dialog box, enter your printer name into "Print Command:" text
field, then click "Print" button
Mailer Issue
*Mailer doesn't recognize Solaris charsets such as "zh_CN.euc"
Some characters sets such as "zh_CN.euc", "zh_TW.euc" and "zh_TW-big5" are
not supported in Netscape Mailer for chinese locale. (Bug 4631358)
Displaying Issue
*Problems with displaying chinese characters
There are some bugs that displaying chinese characters. Some code points
below are not displayed, some are displayed as '?'.
zh_HK.BIG5HK locale: 0xF9DD - 0xF9FE display as space. (bug 4637808)
zh_TW locale: CNS11643 plane 3 characters (bug 4637807)
zh_TW locale: 0xC2A1 - 0xC2C1 (bug 4637806)
zh_TW.BIG5 locale: 0xA3C0 - 0xA3E0 (bug 4637805)
0xA27E - 0xA2A7 (bug 4637804)
zh.GBK locale: 0xA6EC,0xA6ED,0xA6F3,0xA8BC,0xA8BF,0xA958,0xA95B, 0xA6D9 -
0xA6DF, 0xA989 - 0xA995, 0xFE50 - 0xFEA0 (bug 4637802)
*Russian characters become larger than expected on ru_RU.ANSI1251 and
ru_RU.KOI8-R locale. (bug 4649569)
In ru_RU.ANSI1251 and ru_RU.KOI8-R locale, the size of Russian characters
become larger on Netscape.
Workaround:Please add some font path for iso_8859_5 before starting
Netscape,
% xset fp+ /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso_8859_5/X11/fonts/TrueType,
/usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso_8859_5/X11/fonts/Type1,
/usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso_8859_5/X11/fonts/75dpi
% netscape &
For last-minute issues and information about Netscape 6, refer to the
following URL:http://www.sun.com/solaris/netscape
You can find them at the following locations:
* Netscape 7.0 Release Notes:
(http://docs.sun.com)
* Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Netscape 7.0:
(http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/netscape/)
* PDF version of the Reviewers Guide:
(http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/7/learnmore/NS70pr1_reviewersguide.pdf)
* New manual page:
A new manual for Netscape 7.0 is provided in your setup directory. Please use the command
man -M $(setupdirectory) netscape
to see the detailed information about the command "netscape".
It is suggested that you apply the following patches to your system for
Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition,v1.4.1:
SPARC: Solaris 7: 107544-03, 106950-20, 106327-16, 106300-17, 108376-41,
107656-10, 107702-09, 108374-07, 107226-18, 107081-50,
107636-09, 107153-01, 107834-04, 106541-23, 106980-19
SPARC: Solaris 8: 108652-59, 108921-15, 112003-03, 108773-15, 111293-04,
111310-01, 112472-01, 109147-20, 108714-07, 111111-03,
112396-02, 108940-46, 108987-09, 108528-16, 108989-02,
108827-30
SPARC: Solaris 9: None at this time.
Intel: Solaris 7: 107545-03, 106542-23, 106981-19, 106951-20, 106328-15,
108377-36, 107657-08, 107703-09, 108375-07, 107227-18,
107082-50, 107637-09, 107152-01
Intel: Solaris 8: 108653-49, 108922-15, 108774-15, 111294-03, 111307-03,
111311-01, 112473-01, 112439-01, 109148-20, 108715-07,
111112-03, 112397-02, 108941-46, 108988-09, 108529-16,
108990-02, 108828-31
These patches can be obtained from the same page as the Netscape 7.0 download.