[17058] in Athena Bugs
empty netscape preferences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sat Aug 14 09:45:56 1999
Message-Id: <199908141345.JAA29102@m56-129-29.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:45:47 -0400
From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
This morning my .netscape/preferences.js was zero length so netscape
installed a new one. It didn't warn me before doing so. The new
preferences.js specified $HOME/.netscape/cache as the cache directory (it
also turned on java and javascript which is extremely annoying but is also
apparently considered a "feature"). I am using an 8.3 SGI.
This is only a guess, but I suspect I logged out too soon after quitting
netscape last night and lost tokens while netscape was writing the
preferences file. Maybe netscape should write the new preferences under a
different name and rename it into place to ensure that there is always a
good version. Or it should warn loudly if the preferences file is empty.
Or at a minimum, pick the correct local default for the cache.
