NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows User Guide: Installation

Other Configuration Issues

This section addresses system and NCSA Mosaic configuration issues that you may have to resolve.

Help for Slow Network Connections

If your network connection is slow or if you want a speedier response even when you have a good connection, you can change two Mosaic options. See Chapter 4, "Customizing," for more information.

  1. From the Options menu select Preferences.... Next, click on the General menu. Move to the Display Inline Images field.
Disable the Display Inline Images option by clicking in the check box (by default the box is checked). Click OK to implement the change.

Mosaic now displays a generic image icon (and alternate text when available) in place of the actual image. To view the image, click on the image icon with the right mouse button and select Load Image from the pop-up menu (see "Right Mouse Button Features" on page 5-22 for more information on pop-up menus). To find out how large the image file is before you download it, select Image Information from the pop-up menu. Mosaic queries the server for the file size and displays this information for you.

  1. From the Options menu select Preferences.... Next select the Cache menu.
Turning disk caching on means that images and pages you use frequently are saved from session to session. Select Enable, Fast Image Caching, and Check Modification Date From Server, Once Per Session for the quickest response time. Do not check Clear Cache on Exiting Mosaic.

Viewers

NCSA Mosaic uses external viewers or other applications to display certain types of files (e.g., PostScript images, MPEG movies) that are not handled internally. These external viewer applications can be commercial, shareware, freeware, or copyright software. You select the software to use for a specific file type.

Many shareware, freeware, and copyright software viewers and applications work well with Mosaic. For more detailed information about viewers, enter the URL below in the location bar and press RETURN:

 http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/viewers.htm
See
"Setting Up Mosaic Viewers" on page D-1 for more information.