SUMMARY (2): analysis of http performance/connections

[Richard Bemrose <rb237@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fellow system administrator may be interested in Stephen Dowdy's
"Communication Preferences" web page at the following URL:
	http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~dowdy/netscape_cfg/jsprefs.htm

Thanks Stephen!


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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:45:54 -0700 (MST)
From: Stephen Dowdy <dowdy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rb237@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  SUMMARY: analysis of http performance/connections

Thanks for the heads-up on the variables.   I'll play with them and
see how they work for me.  I personally have found that with my setup,
netscape4.7 performs quite well.  It has not very often crashed on me,
whereas pre ns4.7 versions do frequently.  It is certainly MOST often
that it crashes on Crap pages from things like IE or M$ FrontPage
(it seems common that M$ oriented pages make it unstabled, even though
the browser should be more robust)


As an alternative to using your and other's script front-end style
mechanism to torque around the users' preferences.js file (which i used to
do), please see:

	http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~dowdy/netscape_cfg

It gives information on how to build a 'netscape.cfg' file in your
netscape installation directory (MOZILLA_HOME) to establish default and/or
locked preferences on a GLOBAL scale using some of the features of Mission
Control Desktop w/o buying MCD.

I have created a pre-encoded 'netscape.cfg' file there called
	ns-redirect.cfg.txt
that is built from:
	ns-redirect.jsc.txt
(people can trust me that i didn't include anything mischevious if they so
desire.  I'd prefer they used the conf_ed stuff, or reverse engineer an
encoder/decoder like i did, but some people just don't seem to be able to
get that far.)

--stephen
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