Hello, I just installed Netscape 7.1, but I am having a problem. Everytime I try to create a new instance of Netscape (I have a webpage going, but I double click on an .html file on my drive) I get a profile manager window that pops up, and I hit "Start Netscape", but it errors out because the profile is already in use....any solutions?

Thanks

look in the .mozilla/default/... directory or the equivalent netscape one there is a file called lock (at least for mozilla). See if deleting this and starting netscape again solves the problem.

Actually not sure if this is you problem

save the below script in say /usr/bin directory as netscape. chmod it to 755 and point the netscape button on the panel to this script. Note that my netscape browser is installed in /usr/local/netscape. Works fine for me and I can as many browsers as I want without going through profile manager box.

good luck!

#!/bin/sh

if /usr/local/netscape/netscape -remote "ping()" 2>/dev/null
then
# Uncomment one of the following lines according to the desired behavior:
# - replace the current page
#location=""
# - open in new window
location=",new-window"
# - open in new tab
#location=",new-tab"
exec /usr/local/netscape/netscape -remote "openURL($1$location)"
else
exec /usr/local/netscape/netscape "$@"
fi
exit 1

Wow!

Worked really well, thank you so much.