Port details |
- netscape4-navigator Netscape ver 4 navigator web-surfboard
- 4.08 www
=3 4.08Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. FORBIDDEN: "Has a serious security hole, use 4.77 or later instead. (These ports are available only for linux version and alpha arch. Looks Netscape has stopped to release new FreeBSD native binary)"
- Maintainer: sada@FreeBSD.org
 - Port Added: unknown
- Last Update: 2002-11-17 06:21:51
- SVN Revision: UNKNOWN
- People watching this port, also watch:: qpage, ncftp
- License: not specified in port
- Description:
- This is the netscape web-surfboard. Please read the file
"/usr/local/lib/netscape/LICENSE" for the licensing terms.
Note: If the standalone navigator hangs on startup eating all CPU
time, find the user_pref("browser.startup.license_accepted", ...);
line in your ~/.netscape/preferences.js and move it to the end of
the file, or remove it, if simply moving doesn't help.
Don't forget to report this bug to Netscape Team.
Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
chmod 444 fonts.dir
And then exit and restart your X server.
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- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - There is no configure plist information for this port.
- Dependency lines:
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- >0:www/netscape4-navigator
- No installation instructions:
- This port has been deleted.
- PKGNAME:
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
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- Dependencies
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- Runtime dependencies:
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- netscape : www/netscape-wrapper
- libX11.so.6.1 : x11/XFree86-aoutlibs
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
- No options to configure
- Options name:
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Number of commits found: 4
Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
Commit | Credits | Log message |
4.08 17 Nov 2002 06:21:51
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sada  |
Remove all netscape ports with a vulnerability of JRE.
cf.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/218&type=0&nav=sec.sba
Submitted by: trevor
Silently agreed by: maintainers |
19 Aug 2001 09:33:28
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knu  |
Avoid the usage of a variable named "BROWSER", not to conflict with user's
environment variable with the same name. |
08 Oct 2000 08:11:25
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asami  |
Convert category www to new layout. |
01 Jun 2000 10:31:39
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asami  |
Remove some empty directories. Also convert netscape4-navigator to use
wrapper. |
Number of commits found: 4
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