Sidebar question re Weather

How can we personalize the sidebar Weather tab? I currently have listed, three cities that do not interest me. How can I delete them and add my own choices? Thanks.

 

James,

Good question, and I had to check the Help section, and this is what it says:

My weather "Customize" button was grayed out, so I assume that it cannot be customized.

You can customize the weather on the My Netscape page, if you have one...

Ramona

 

Preface:

I hate the sidebar......

Now on to your question:
How can we personalize the sidebar Weather tab?

This is from my observations - NS 8.0.1 - XP-Home -

The sidebar "Weather tab" is tied in to your "MY NETSCAPE" page - ( when I say "MY NETSCAPE" I am refering to the MY NETSCAPE page located here: http://my.netscape.com/index2.psp

By default it displays the three entries New York - San Francisco - London.....

To get it to display your preferences, you MUST be logged into "MY NETSCAPE" and you MUST have configured the "Weather" on "MY NETSCAPE" to your choices......

If you "sign out" of "MY NETSCAPE" and leave the weather tab in sidebar and go back, you will see that it has reverted to defaults settings.

Bottom line is: you must be logged in to MY NETSCAPE, edit 'Weather' with your choices, and stay logged in.

My opinion - If you have to log in to "MY NETSCAPE" to get it to work right in the sidebar, why not just look at the weather on MY NETSCAPE......

You may have to close sidebar and re-open it to kick into gear....

HTH
regards:captjlddavis

 

Thanks! I see what you mean about having to be signed into the My Netscape page. As far as I'm concerned, this renders the Weather in the sidebar a bit problematic since I don't often log into the My Netscape page, given that I prefer the My Yahoo site instead. So... I suppose that means the Sidebar Weather is irrelevant. And as an aside: the My Netscape homepage is nigh to being completely useless (always has been as far as I'm concerned). I've never been able to get it to retain my settings... it consistently forgets settings (i.e. My Favorite sites and Weather settings) and frequently is unavailable.

Thanks, Ramona... I've configured the weather in my personal toolbar and it works fine.

 

My views on the sibject.

My E-Mail and Weather are and have been completley separate from the browser for YEARS.

E-Mail ( MailWasher & Eudroa )
Weather ( WeatherBug )

Do not even need a Browser running. Been that way since WAY back in the days Of 95. At least the mail part.

WeatherBug is more recent. And if I leave it running in the Systray I get an occasional weather alert. In fact I have one as I write.

In Short it says " MORE RAIN. " YYYYYUUUCCCKKK

All of the messing around that I have done with NS 8 and FireFox have had NO effect whatsoever on my Mail or Weather.

Intergrated stuff is nice. But when something goes wrong all Hello can break loose.

Users can what they want about 3rd party software. But it does come in handy. If for no more than a BACKUP.

The old saying about putting all yours eggs in one basket SURE DOES apply to computers and/or Windows.

BillyBob

 

But Billy... think of all the fun you've had messing about. Just the other day you mentioned being bored... so this NS 8 jazz has been just the ticket!

 

has anyone tried to get yahoo toolbar on the 8.0.1? i tried the other day downloaded fine, then title bar changed from netscape to ms i e and i had two yahoo toolbars one under the other. they dont say that the 8 0 1 cant have the toolbar. but it could be that yahoo hates me.

 

But James I did not say that I would not have a go at it.

But as of right now and TRYING various Browsers, things will set as they are. If and when I do decide on a certain new browser I may have a go at the E-Mail part.

And whether I mentioned ( or even implied ) over the years Eudora has proven to be very reliable. No matter What OS ( 95 thru XP Pro ) or machine I use. And the Eudora on this machine right now has been on here since the days of 95. Browser and/or OS changes have had no effect on it whatsoever.

And by me at this time messing with various browser having the E-Mail Separate is a GREAT BIG HUGH advantage.

Plus right now by having two diffferent browser would more than likely be two different e-mail areas. I doubt that OE and Firefox would use the same storage location.

So by having Eudora as a separate item makes life A LOT easier. MailWasher just lets me preview what is in the mailbox and delete the TRASH right off of the server. And I had two this AM that I am VERY SURE I did not need on my machine.

Plus right now if I do have problems with this machine I can go to my Wifes' machine and check my mail. And she has already warned me that if I go putting any fancy dancy stuff on her machine she would more than likely hand me my head on a platter.

BillyBob

 

jan,

There is a 36 page thread on the Netscape Browser Review Forum regarding Extensions.

There is an edit you can do in the xpi file which will make a Fx extension compatible with Netscape 8.0.1. A user on the Forum "Cyclone John" has listed several extensions which were compatible, once the edit was done on the downloaded xpi file for the extensions. I did a search for the Yahoo Toolbar, but it came up zip. I read thru 9 pages, and stopped, and will let you read through the next 27... .

Ramona

 

Ramona,

A Yahoo search for Cyclone John turned up lots of information on the damage done when Cyclone John hit, but I didn't notice anything resembling a forum. Do you know what this xpi trick is, or have a link to that "Cyclone John" forum post?

Edit: Never mind, I clicked your link to the Netscape forum and turned to page one of the thread. There he was, "Cyclone John," with the info on what to do! I wonder why he named himself after a hurricane?

 

I made things simpler by uninstalling 8.01. It is not worth the effort.

 

IMPORTANT!

If anyone wants to install the Firefox extentions in the new Netscape, please make sure to peruse the WHOLE thread Ramona linked to in the Netscape forum. The initial post's directions only work on older Netscape builds. Now that 8.01 is out, you need to use maxVersion 8.01 (or better yet 10.0! Why not?) as the first post only goes up to 0.1!

 

Westside,

Yeah, but it's Netscape so it's cool!

Also, I kind of like that it has Firefox and Internet Explorer built in. I have it set up to basically be Firefox. But if I need to use Internet Explorer, I just click the icon and there is the page in IE mode.

And now, with a little work, most Firefox extentions will work too. That Cyclone John guy even has a zip file with his pre-modded extentions so you don't need to do the work yourself. (Just be sure to download the one from later in the thread as the first file posted is modded to work with the beta Netscape 8.)

And, I like that if the browser knows (by frequent checks daily) of know bad pages, it'll automatically turn off Javascript and installations for those pages.

 

Greetings.

If anyone gets "chromedit" and/or "preferential" to work with8.0.1, Please let me know - I have had no luck with either ...

TIA

regards:captjlddavis

 

I am unable to get SpellBound to work. I tried using John's xpi file, but it wouldn't work, so I edited my xpi file, which I downloaded from the SpellBound site, and it doesn't work either. However, some users are reporting success!

 

I never installed it to begin with, and saved myself all the aggravation (but no one listened to me)! Go Firefox!

 

Heh, heh.

I've installed it, played with it. I discovered that it's actually pretty good!

However, after giving it some thought I removed it and went back to Firefox.

Although I didn't have any buggy experiences, I just can't see using a branded version of a browser that will seemingly continue to be based upon older code than where Firefox now is. I mean, unless the added features are absolutely awe inspiring cannot do without, why not use the browser it is based upon (Firefox) when you know you'll always have the latest innovations, features, bug fixes, security fixes that way?

Westside's posts helped me think that through. I did like the experience more than him, finding it mostly positive, but although AOL has kept up with patching security updates he is correct about one important matter. The thing will always be Mozilla 1.7.5. Firefox is already 1.7.8 based. So whatever browser features, bug fixes, etc that the latest Firefox or Mozilla Suite has are just not going to be part of Netscape 8.

It's like Microsoft's providing only security patch's for Windows 9x, but making folks hunt down and call them to purchase any functionality updates and not even really working on making a lot of those file improvements they patch for XP useable on 9x systems. Only user communities like those on the msfn.org forums make some of those available for 9x users. Without trusting these 3rd party ways, 9x remains frozen with 98SE files from 5, 6 years ago!

Same with Netscape, but I can't see folks finding ways to patch up Netscape to Mozilla 1.7.8 and beyond like the folks like MDGx and Gape are doing for 98SE! Plus, I don't think it would be legal! See, if you want the Windows Me files improvements for 98SE you need to first own both 98SE and Windows Me. So, the batch files provided by MDGx just let a guy already licensed to use the Me files install them into 98SE. The only licence we get for Netscape 8 is to use Netscape 8 as is. And unless AOL plans to constantly pay that Canadian developer to update Netscape 8 to the current Mozilla/Firefox milestone (which is already several versions ahead of Netscape 8), then the Netscape 8 user will always be using an older, buggier browser than Mozilla/Firefox users. It's nice that AOL will keep up with the security patch's, but really the combo Internet Explorer/Firefox rendering is the only advantage. And that is not really necessary, since everyone already has Internet Explorer!

So, we might as well use the best version of Firefox available and that is not Netscape. Ya like the Netcape skin? I think it's available in a Firefox version. I don't know where though. I didn't see it in the Firefox Mozilla Update site. Actually I think the Firefox version is the original of that as well! Netscape calls it Fusion, but it think it's a different name in the original version. I saw it somewhere, but just can't remember where.

 

I think that this review is quite interesting. In any event, although I don't go overboard with new programs, because I like to see what other people think about it, this is another case where AOL took a step backward. I still have the beta, and like NS6 preview releases, is very usable. I think that whoever works on the programs, they manage to introduce bugs in the final versions. Are these guys paid by Microsoft?