Subj : Mozilla vs IBM web browser
To   : Bat Lang
From : Herbert Rosenau
Date : Sat Apr 23 2005 07:54 pm

Am 22.04.05 18:54 schrieb Bat Lang

 BL>  -=> Quoting Stephen Haffly to Bat Lang, [19 Apr 05  05:33:47] <=-

 SH>> On (18 Apr 05) Bat Lang wrote to All...

 BL>> Since eCS 1.2 comes with IBM Web browser, I have that loaded and
 BL>> it works to my satisfaction...but...I keep hearing good things
 BL>> about
 BL>  <SNIP>
 BL>> BTW, the last two downloaded versions I have tried are:
 BL>> mozilla-os2-1.7.6-installer-unoff.exe (from Mikey's friend)
 BL>> mozilla-os2-1_8a4-installer.exe (from the Moz site?)

 SH>> In addition to ensuring that you have the correct GCC libraries,
 SH>> one thing that I do is to have a separate profiles directory
 SH>> configured. It makes updating the Firefox (and Mozilla) browsers
 SH>> just a bit simpler since it eliminates the danger of overwriting
 SH>> something when unzipping an updated version.  For that, use the
 SH>> MOZILLA_HOME= line in your config.sys to set this up. By doing
 SH>> this, I have the IWB, Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird able to
 SH>> run and play together.

 BL> I wish I could get mine to coexist. Herbert says to uninstall
 BL> IBS, and since I'm at the final point in it's life, I'm going to
 BL> try that first.

 SH>> My line, for example reads:  SET MOZILLA_HOME=D:\MOZPROFILES

 BL> Mine reads: SET MOZILLA_HOME=D:\HOME\DEFAULT

A bit ugly when D: is your system drive. But o.k. so far. Let this alone as 
mozilla will use this. It will hold your old profile(s).


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