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Tips for Net Surfers 2
Collected Wisdom
When you have problems with a
Netscape Product for which you need a solution fast, then go to Netscape's Knowledge-Base.
Here you will find the questions and answers on almost all products of Netscape. The
Knowledge-Base you can find at http://help.netscape.com/browse/.
To search directly for a certain term in the Knowledge-Base then http://help.netscape.com/search.html is a
good place to start.
No Way Back?
During it happens regularly that the BACK-button doesn't work.
This mostly is the fault of the browser, but the result of a special piece of code on the
page. This code sees to it that the selected link is opened in a new screen. On this
moment you have 2 browser screens open, of which only the oldest keeps which pages where
visited earlier. So when you are finished with the page close the newest screen and
continue with the old one.
The Past
As well Netscape as IE keeps track of which sites were visited.
This could come in handy when you want to find a site again after a while, but forgot the
URL. For IE you can find them in your History map in the Windows directory. IE will
keep visited sites in the History for 20 days. For Netscape versions under 4.0 open in the
menu Window, then History. For versions 4.0 and higher click on the option Communicator,
then History, this will open a list. Standard Netscape will keep visited sites in the
History for 9 days, but you can easily change that.
Memory Support
The more the Net is used for business transactions, also the
number of sites that are password protected grows. To have to provide your user name and
password is becoming draggy. And the more sites ask for a log-in, the harder it becomes to
remember the right user name and password. Luckily there's a solution for it. It's
possible to make a bookmark for it, in the shape of: http://user:password@www.site.nl
If there's asked for this bookmark, then Netscape provides automatically the correct user
name and password. The disadvantage of it is that all who get there hands on the bookmark
file know the password. Therefore it's also possible to fill out just the user name. Then
only a screen will popup where you have to fill out the password. The bookmark for this
has this form: http://user@www.site.nl
Corrupt
Attachments
The sending of files with emails is almost always going well.
Sometimes a file gets corrupted when it's send. A possible solution might be to change the
format in which it is send. Before you press the send button, choose the tab: Message,
Sendoptions. Here you can select Uucoding instead of MIME for attachments. Standard
MIME-coding is used; Uucoding is an older way to send files. And because Uucoding works
completely different then MIME, could this be the way that the file is send without
problems.
Extra Screens
Normally you click with the left mouse button on a link to go
to this page, in which case you would automatically lose the previous page. This is
annoying especially with a slow connection. To open a link in it's own screen, you can
press the Shift-button while clicking on the URL. Now it's very simple to switch with
Alt-Tab between 2 browser windows. In this way you could open as many screens as you like.
This method also works to avoid frames. In most cases a new page will be opened in a
relatively small part of the screen. These pages you can open with the Shift-button to see
them on a full screen.
Color Preferences
Most Web Sites get the colors for background, links, etc, which
the author of the pages added to them. For the rest of the page Netscape uses standard
colors. For old versions of Netscape you can adjust them via Options, General Preferences,
Colors. For Netscape version 4.0 and up you can adjust them via Edit, Preferences,
Appearance, Colors. In most versions you will find a button in front of "always use
my colors, overriding document. If you choose this option the authors settings will be
ignored. By using your own settings could destroy the effect and the appearance of the
page though.
Read Later
The reading of newsgroups can be very expensive if you do it
online. The solution is that the Netscape versions 4.0 and higher have an offline modus.
When you're on-line, you chose from the menu File, the option Offline. A screen will
appear where you can check the option Newsgroups. When you click OK, you will get a screen
in which you can select which Newsgroups have to be downloaded. Select them and click OK.
The mails from the selected groups will be copied to the harddisk of your PC, so that you
can read them later. When all messages are downloaded, you can disconnect.
Tips for Net Surfers was
written by Catz_Eyesİ, 1999
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