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Web Browser Tips:
Common Bookmarks file
for Navigator and Explorer:
1. Create an alias of that Bookmarks.html file, rename the alias
as Favorites.html and stick it in the Explorer folder inside the
Preferences folder in your active system folder. Now you have a
bookmarks file that works for both Netscape and Explorer (but recent
changes won't show up on the fly - you'll see the updated bookmarks/favorites
list after quitting and relaunching the other browser)
2. Make Bookmarks.html your start page. You can take this one as
far as you want - use your browser's Open File command (Command-O,
or File: Open File) to navigate to that Bookmarks/Favorites.html
file in the browser's folder within the System Folder's Preferences
folder (or just drag the Bookmarks/Favorites.html file into an open
browser window, or onto the browser's application icon) and you'll
see your bookmarks/favorites list as a basic Web page. Now bookmark/favoritize
that, and you can open it up in a browser window just like any other
bookmarked/favorite site. Then open your browser's preferences or
use your Internet control panel to set the
bookmarks/favorites file as your default start page. Not geeky enough?
that
bookmarks/favorites file is just a simple html page - open it up
in your text editor of choice and geek out.
Netscape bookmark revival:
If you performed a clean install of the Mac OS and did not remember
to save the bookmarks or addresses, there is a way to find them:
Most likely you haven't deleted the 'Previous System Folder' which
was created as a byproduct of your clean install. It's in there,
on the same hard drive upon which you clean-installed the system
software. Within this folder, open the Preferences folder, then
the Netscape (or Netscape Users, depending on what version of Netscape
you use). Inside, you'll find a file named Bookmarks.html. There's
your bookmarks - put the file in place of the Preferences:Netscape:Bookmarks.html
file in your new System Folder and you're good to go.
Microsoft advice on clean install of Explorer
5:
1. Close all applications.
2. Move the Internet Preferences file and the Explorer folder from
the System:Preferences folder to the desktop.
3. Trash the following: MS Internet Cache folder (from the System:Preferences
folder; MS Preference Panels folder (from the System folder), and
any of these files (that may be in your Extensions folder): Microsoft
Framework, Microsoft Internet Library, Microsoft Component Library,
and MS Font Embed Library.
4. Use Sherlock (Cmd-F) to find any folder or file with the phrase
"Internet Explorer" in its name. Trash them all. [Be careful
here in case you have some personal file or folder with this phrase
in its name.]
5. Restart your Mac with all extensions disabled except Appearance
and Memory.
6. Install a new copy of Explorer 5 by dragging the Explorer 5 folder
from the Internet Explorer5.smi image file to your hard drive.
7. Launch Explorer. It will finish installing and should open (albeit
with connection errors).
8. Quit Explorer and restart with your normal set of extensions
enabled. [Although the
instructions did not say, we presume you next drag back the Internet
Preferences and
Explorer folder to their previous location - hoping that nothing
here is the cause of the problem.
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