Dear friends: I have started using Mozilla 0.8 as my default browser (and am looking forward to 0.8.1). I am especially pleased with the control over the size of the fonts. However, I have two questions: 1) The much vaunted Search function of Mozilla seems to have turned to ashes: Clicking on Search does NOT bring up the Google search engine, as it clearly should according to my Preferences, Navigator, Internet Search, selection (just checked again to be sure: it says: Google). Instead, I am presented with Netscape.com's portal. Same things happens in Netscape 4.76. But in the old 4.76 if you click on Edit, Find on the Internet often enough, you WILL get the Google box. But in Mozilla 0.8, you won't see it at all. So, who needs the toolbar, then. Instead, I recommend doing what I have done: uncheck the toolbar altogether (including My Sidebar), everything except the menu, go to http://www.google.com, then make a bookmark, in Edit Bookmarks, if necessary, move your Google bookmark way up to the top of the bookmark list, and now, if you want to REALLY search the Internet, just open your Bookmarks (thank God it is listed as a menu itself, and click on Google and there you are in an instant. Of course, you could select any search engine you wish. What a great waste of resources. A great Search feature with My Sidebar really being useful for this purpose,-- and all ruined by a mercenary, self-destructive shoot-oneself-in-the-foot corporate reptile, i.e. AOL/Netscape. If I am wrong, if I have missed something, my apologies to Mozilla and AOL/Netscape. Please correct me if I am wrong. But if I am right, then it's all very sad. 2) No less sad is the buggy Preferences box (Edit, Preferences). Ever since Mozilla .7, I have found it impossible to replace the default adobe fonts (which are, admittedly very good) with my Windows True Type fonts (I have a dual-boot system). I had NO problem with this in Netscape, and I have been able, albeit with some effort, to configure the Preferences in Mozilla .8 (you have to do it one option at a time), i.e. everything EXCEPT the fonts. Every single time that I have tried to do this, Mozilla crashes. And I have tried every version of Mozilla available, rpm, tarball, Full Install, etc. etc., every build available on the Mozilla download page. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how can this be solved? Is there a workaround, perhaps a manual workaround. If so, please share this secret with me, and, please be easy on me, I am just an ordinary user and need precise instructions. Yet, the preferences file in ~/.mozilla clearly says: "Do not edit this generated file!" So what is a Mozilla user to do? Thank you very kindly. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
