Guest urbanotter Posted November 8, 2002 Report Share Posted November 8, 2002 Ok, I'm gonna show my newbieness, but I'm stuck. I downloaded the linux version of Netscape 7 from their website, followed all of their instructions and was rewared by a slick looking browser. Great. However, when I closed it, I couldn't get it back. I found the binary and typed its name into a command line to be rewarded with a message saying the command didn't exist. Argh. Has anyone else had this problem? Should I even bother? Is there something else better? (I'm using mozilla and konqueror now, and I like 'em it but I'm shopping around.) urbanotter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted November 8, 2002 Report Share Posted November 8, 2002 make sure that when you try to run a program that's not in your path, you put a ./ in front of it. if you like mozilla but think it's too slow you could try phoenix. its based on mozilla, but smaller and faster. many people like galeon as well, but i've never used it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ender Posted November 8, 2002 Report Share Posted November 8, 2002 I personally user Opera for most of my browsing, but find that with some sites it doesnt aggree with to well (mostly M$ sites that were probably written with Front Page! ) www.opera.com It has support for all the major plugins and is quicker then mozilla/konqueror. Also, once you use the mouse gestures you'll find you cant live with out them! :D I've never actually tried netscape with linux but have used mozilla quite a bit and found it to work well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LinuxExplorer Posted November 11, 2002 Report Share Posted November 11, 2002 Ok, I still consider myself a total newbie too, so I'll take you through a quick run through of how I set up an icon in KDE3 ala Windoze. If you're acquainted with right-clicking, then the actual setup for an icon is simple with MDK9 and KDE3. By default, the actual executable should be in your /usr/local/netscape/ directory. Right click on your desktop anywhere, highlight Create New - > click on Link to Application. Click on the Execute tab at the top and type in '/usr/local/netscape/netscape' in the Command space, if its in the default directory. Just Ok it afterwards, and you should have an icon for Netscape now. Feel free to rename it from Link to Application. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest urbanotter Posted November 11, 2002 Report Share Posted November 11, 2002 Thanks LinuxExplorer, I feel kinda dumb that I didn't think of that. I was clearly trying to execute the wrong binary (althought I can't remember which one it was now). Thanks for your help, urbanotter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LinuxExplorer Posted November 11, 2002 Report Share Posted November 11, 2002 Huh? Oh, sure thing. I'm just sharing things as I continue to further explore Linux. Figuring out rough fixes and stuff like that too when I can't get something to work. Fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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