Good evening: My wife wanted to play some games on Yahoo this evening (on her windows machine, vs. me on my RH8 machine), so I attempted to get the Java VM installed using the 1.0.1 Mozilla that ships as default with RH8. To make a long story short, I failed abysmally at getting the VM to work with the existing version (1.0.1) of Mozilla.
So, I downloaded the 1.1 version of Mozilla, and installed this into /usr/local/mozilla. When I accessed the yahoo page for games, I was prompted to download the VM, and did so, successfully as the root user. The VM worked perfectly. Next challenge was to get this new version of mozilla to run automatically when running the link to htmlview that was installed in the panel, just so that I'm consistently running version 1.1 of Mozilla. Here is where my (long-winded) question comes in: 1) When I read the code to the HTMLVIEW script, I saw that it looks for a local file called $HOME/.htmlviewrc. I made an educated guess and as the sole line in this file, entered "/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla" which is the full pathname to the mozilla 1.1 executable I installed. 2) When I first ran the link to HTMLVIEW that is in the PANEL, I verified that, indeed, the newer version of Mozilla started. However, when I exited this version (and not until 1.1 version fully exited), the OLD (1.0) version of Mozilla fired up. 3) I added an additional line in the .htmlviewrc file that only reads "exit". This appears to fix the startup of the second session of Mozilla after my first is closed. While I'm certain that I hacked this band-aid together at least marginally correctly (otherwise it wouldn't be working), I'm still curious as to whether this is, in fact, the "correct" way to do this? Sorry for the long-winded message... I am new to this. Thank you, Sean Bossinger
