Nicing Netscape

Please nice netscape jobs. There are two ways to do this:

1. After you started netscape, type top. Looking at the list of jobs, find the PID of your netscape job; it is the first entry.

           type:  r 19 <PID>
   

2. Alternately in your alias file (.aliases, for example which is sourced by .cshrc upon login) add an alias such as

   
   alias net '(/usr/bin/nice -n 19 
    /usr/local/bin/X11/netscape \!* >& /dev/null)' &
   

   It must be a single line.

   If you always logon to the same starter page, you can replace \!* with that web address. Otherwise this alias will take any address. If you don't like typing http:// you can replace \!* with http://\!*

Leave netscape jobs nicely. In the options under "File" use the "Exit" option prior to logging out. If you don't do this, you can

• leave a netscape job running;
• leave lots of junk in your host's /tmp directory.
• leave lots of junk in your .netscape and .netscape/cache (or .netscape/archive) file.