Netscape 2 Friendlier eg Close does Back

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Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/inet/web/nt ... ndlier.hqx

This Resource file contains replacements for certain of the Menu resources
of Netscape 2, to make its behavior friendlier (more consistent with other
Mac contexts).

The changes are:

Added Cmd-S to the Save or Save As in several places

Added Cmd-R to the "Mark all Items Read in this NewsGroup"

and the important one:

Disabled Cmd-W so it won't close your last Browser window, and changed
Cmd-W to do "Back".

This makes the Netscape window behavior more consistent with the usual use
of windows in the Mac, namely:

In most Mac environments, you open an item and create a window by Cmd-O or
double-clicking, to any depth, and you back out of the nest of windows by
using Cmd-W.

But in Netscape, you single-click to open (double usually does no harm),
but have to use Back to back out of the nest. If you forget you are in
Netscape instead of some other editor or finder context, and hit Cmd-W by
habit, you close your Browser window and with it all the history of where
you have been.

I did this a lot, and found it extremely annoying. Contexts that feel
similar ought to act similarly on the Mac--I shouldn't have to add a new
habit to consciously check my context every time I want to close a window
to unnest a level!

To install, you need ResEdit. Open "Netscape 2 Friendlier" in ResEdit,
select the Menu resource, Cmd-C to copy it to the clipboard, open Netscape
2, Cmd-V to paste. When asked, tell Netscape to replace resources with the
same IDs, Cmd-S to save, quit.

This updates only the half dozen menus in Netscape that have changes in
their Cmd keys.

The same changes have worked through a few 2 beta versions, and are likely
to work for a few future releases, but there can be no guarantee of that.
At least it seems unlikely to cause a crash, and you can always back up to
a fresh version by using the Netscape installer.

Dave Gustavson
[email protected]