From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686) Description of problem: The .netscape subdirectory is searched for in /home/<user> even though $HOME = /mnt/home/<user>. Hence, the cache and bookmarks are found on an nfs server but not on nfs clients which mount home directories. This was not the case with older versions of netscape. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): netscape-common-4.77-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start netscape from nfs server - it correctly finds the .netscape directory 2. start netscape from nfs client - there are, for example, no bookmarks defined. 3. Additional info:
Works for me with 4.77-1 and 4.78-* from Raw Hide. Both the /usr/bin/netscape wrapper script and the binaries access $HOME/.netscape (and $HOME/nsmail). $ rm -rf /tmp/testhome ; mkdir /tmp/testhome $ export HOME=/tmp/testhome $ netscape creates everything in /tmp/testhome/.netscape and also notifies the user about missing cache directories. All in the new $HOME.
This also works for me in testing here.