Netscape 0.94b is an early beta version of the venerable Netscape
Navigator, and a direct descendant of Mosaic NetScape.

DL #2 Netscape 0.90
DL #2 Netscape 0.93b
DL #3 Netscape 0.94b

> RELEASE NOTES
>
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>  Installation:
>
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>
> If you are using version 0.90, the name of the Preferences folder
> and
>  Preferences file has changed. You need to change the following
> files inside
>  your preferences directory:
>  "Mosaic NetScape? ?" becomes "Netscape ?".
>  "Mosaic NetScape? Preference" becomes "Netscape Preferences"
>
> ====================================================================
>  Bug fixes since 0.93
>
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>  \- License clicker fits on a 9" screen
>
> \- Progress bar for cached data no longer displays incorrect numbers
>
> \- Transparent images work in a 24-bit mode.
>
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>  New features since 0.90 (incomplete list)
>
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>
> \- Secure communication. Currently, there is no document describing
> the
>  security user interface. You'll notice several user interface
>  enhancements: security icon in the lower left corner, security
> color bar,
>  document info menu item, new pane in preferences, and a number of
>  warning dialogs when switching between secure and insecure modes.
> If
>  you are interested in technical details, you might want to look at
> the SSL
>  protocol RFC (<http://home.mcom.com/info/SSL.html>).
>
> \- Fonts are customizable. You can pick a proportional and fixed
> fonts,
>  in Preferences:Styles menu.
>
> \- Persistent disk cache. Netscape will use disk to cache downloaded
>  files. This should reduce network traffic, and improve performance,
>  especially for low-bandwidth users.
>  By default, Netscape places its disk cache inside its
>  "Netscape Preferences ?:Cache ?" folder, and uses 1 Meg of disk
> space.
>  You can customize the location and size of the cache in
>  "Preferences:Directories". We suggest to increase the size of the
>  cache to between 5 - 20 Meg. If you crash, cache files that are
>  unknown to Netscape will automatically be deleted next time you
>  run the application.
>
> Additional tech notes: Each file fetched off the network has an
>  expiration date, determined by algorithms which vary with protocol.
>  For HTTP, if the file in the cache has expired, Netscape will use
>  "If-Modified-Since" request to fetch the document. Therefore, even
>  if the file is cached on the disk, you might see some network
> activity.
>  For servers, smart use of "Expires:" header will make Netscape
> contact
>  your server less often.
>
> WARNING: persistent cache will get confused if you are running
> multiple
>  versions of Netscape at once. The symptomis that Netscape will load
>  a file from the cache that does not correspond to the file on the
> network.
>
> \- Async DNS lookup: all DNS lookups are done asynchronously, no
> more
>  hangups of your machine.
>
> \- Full ISO character set support in forms.
>
> \- Better SOCKS support: Netscape will now read socks.conf file out
>  of its Preferences folder.
>
> \- Go to MCOM spinning icon. If you click on the spinning icon, it
>  will load the MCOM home page.
>
> \- Support for "GetURL" Apple Event. Next release of NewsWatcher
> (after d19)
>  will be able to use Netscape as a helper application.
>
> ====================================================================
>  Incomplete list of fixed bugs
>
> ====================================================================
>
> Directories menu for preferences used to crash if Finder database
> was
>  corrupted. Now you will get a warning that you need to rebuild your
>  desktop
>
> You can cut/copy/paste into all text fields.
>
> Abort of DNS lookups sometimes caused all subsequent DNS lookups to
>  fail.
>
> Mailer reversed your name and email address.
>
> News connections are cached.
>
> Saving graphics files viewed internally in Netscape as source
>  did not work, because Netscape converted carriage returns to
>  linefeeds.
>
> When Netscape was in the background, and poped up a dialog box,
>  strange things happened. Now Netscape uses notification manager,
>  like all nice Mac applications.
>
> Text fields now scroll automatically.
>
> Bug that caused incompatibilities with AfterDark 3.0, and various
>  menu utilities has been fixed.
>
> ====================================================================
>  Bugs we need more feedback on
>
> ====================================================================
>
> SLIP/PPP/TIA incompatibilities: Some users have reported crashes
> when
>  using Netscape over PPP/SLIP/TIA. Sometimes, setting the minimum
>  number of connections to 1 fixed this. We'd like to hear all about
>  your problems, together with detailed description of what software
>  are you using, and if setting the number of connections to 1 fixes
>  the problem.
>
> Several users have reported that after using Netscape to read news,
>  and browse, Norton Utilities would complain that newsrc and
>  global history files have been corrupted. We have been unable to
>  reproduce this, and would love to hear a detailed description of
>  how to reliably reproduce this bug.
>
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>  Known bugs/incompatibilities
>
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>
> "QL Fax Print" and "Fax Manager".
>  The extension adds a fax control item in the file menu of the
>  currently running app. Crashes Netscape when you click on a menu.
> This might be fixed
>  in this release.
>
> Microsoft Mail pops up a window in front of Netscape that you
>  cannot click on?

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

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