Overview
These are the main parts of Netscape Communicator; for more detailed information
click any of these:
Browsing the Web
Sending and receiving
email
Using discussion groups
(newsgroups)
Composing and editing
Web pages
Conferencing and group
work tools
Automatic information
from the Web
About Navigator
Netscape Navigator enables you to access the wealth of information and
network applications on corporate intranets and the Internet. You can easily
access information from a variety of sources, from the latest Web sites
to legacy corporate databases.
Using Navigator
About Messenger
Netscape Messenger enables you to create rich HTML email with embedded
images. It also allows you to encrypt and decrypt your messages for privacy,
use filters to automatically organize your incoming messages into folders,
and quickly look up email addresses.
Using Messenger
About Collabra
Netscape Collabra provides discussion forums that make it easy to share
information and create a "knowledge base" that people can access at any
time. You can reduce the need for face-to-face meetings and save time by
exchanging ideas and information through discussion groups. You can also
cut down on mass email by using Netscape Collabra to disseminate company
information and announcements.
Using Collabra
About Composer
The document creation capabilities in Netscape provide both experienced
and beginning content creators with a simple yet powerful solution for
editing and publishing online documents. What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get
(WYSIWYG) editing allows first-time users to create dynamic online documents
easily and publish them to local file systems and remote servers with ease.
Using Composer
About Conference
Netscape Conference supports audio/video conferencing and a variety of
other collaboration tools, including whiteboard, chat, and file transfer.
Using Conference
About Netcaster
Netscape Netcaster enables you to subscribe to and schedule automatic delivery
of the information you want, from the best channels on the Web, instead
of manually downloading and searching for information. Netcaster also provides
offline browsing, which can save you connection charges by allowing you
to choose any Web site to automatically download and make that information
accessible while you are offline (disconnected from the Internet).
Using Netcaster
About Security
About Security
Certificates and Signatures
About Security Terms and Concepts
Encrypting and Decrypting
About Security Terms and Concepts
Passwords and Keys
About Passwords
About Security Terms and
Concepts
Security Settings
About Messenger
Settings
About Navigator
Settings
About Java
Applet Settings
Troubleshooting
Cannot Decrypt
Tampered
Messages
Signing Java Applets
About Security Terms and Concepts
About Java
Applet Settings
About User Profiles
An overview of user profiles and sharing
Communicator with others
Note that user profiles apply to Macintosh and Windows only. For Unix,
create another user account instead of creating Communicator profiles.
When you start Communicator for the first time, it prompts you to create
a user profile. User profiles let more than one person use Communicator
to access the Internet in different ways. For example, if you share your
copy with other users, each of you can create your own user profiles to
keep your settings, preferences, bookmarks, and mail messages separate.
Even if you are the only person using Communicator, you must create at
least one profile for yourself.
If you want to, you can create several profiles just for yourself, for
example, if you want to connect to a different service provider to try
out their service without cancelling the account you have with your current
service provider.
Creating User Profiles
Note that user profiles apply to Macintosh and Windows only. For Unix,
create another user account instead of creating Communicator profiles.
To create additional user profiles
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(Windows) If Communicator is running, from the File menu choose Exit.
(Macintosh) If Communicator is running, from the File menu choose Quit.
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(Windows 95 and Windows NT) From the Start menu, choose Programs, then
Netscape Communicator, then choose Utilities, then User Profile Manager.
(Windows 3.1) Open the Netscape Communicator program group, and double-click
User Profile Manager.
(Macintosh) Open the Netscape Communicator folder, and double-click
User Profile Manager.
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Click New.
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Follow the Profile Setup instructions that appear.
About Error
Messages
For the latest information on error messages; causes and solutions, choose
Product Information and Support from the Help Menu. Click the Technical
Support link and use the Knowledge Base search to look up information about
error messages and troubleshooting.
Using the Index
Click Index, then type the word that most closely resembles the term you're
searching for, and related topics appear. Click the topic that most closely
matches the information you seek.
Other Sources
of Help
For additional information regarding Communicator, you can choose other
items on the Help menu, such as Release Notes, which offers the latest
news about known problems and work-arounds, and Product Information and
Support, which links to a page that offers a library of Communicator product
information, such as Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs), the manual Introduction
to Communicator, and information on who to contact for further assistance
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Last revised 19 March 98