Web Quick 1.0 is an intelligent enhancement for your Web browsing environment.
The WWW is the fastest growing component of the Internet today, and the first to display styled text and graphics. To use a WWW browser, you need a modem or network access, access to the Internet, and software that enables your computer to communicate with the Internet.
With thousands of sites to explore, finding your way around needs to be as easy as possible—but the standard Bookmarks and Go menus have significant limitations.
Web Quick is the easiest, quickest way to return to a Web page or site you recently visited. Plus, it includes some handy shortcuts to the most useful sites on the Internet: powerful searching engines, news sources, computing resources, and much more!
And unlike separate Bookmarking applications, it takes less than half a megabyte of precious RAM; it's always available with just one mouse-click; and, using Web Quick to manage Web information takes fewer steps than any competing product.
Requirements
System Requirements
• 68020 processor or better
• System 7.1.1 and above
• 8 MB of RAM installed or more [Web Quick needs approximately 250K]
• 750K of available hard disk space
Access to the Internet
You must have access to the Internet through an Internet Service Provider or the network to which your computer is connected.
Internet software
If you have a 68k Macintosh or Power Macintosh with NuBus
(such as Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100, and Performa 52xx, 62xx, 63xx):
• MacTCP (Control Panel)
• If you are a dial-up user, Config PPP or similar PPP connection software (Control Panel) with PPP (Extension)
If you have a PCI Power Macintosh
(such as Power Macintosh 7200, 7500, 8500, 9500):
• Open Transport 1.0.8 or greater (Extension)
• If you are a dial-up user, Config PPP or similar PPP connection software (Control Panel) with PPP (Extension)
• TCP/IP (Control Panel)
Browser environment
Web Quick 1.0 supports these market-leading browser environments:
• Netscape Navigator 2.0 and later
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 and later
Attention Beta Testers
• Be sure to delete old beta copies of the Web Quick extension.
Compatibility
PIXs 1.0
This system extension may not be able to capture screenshots of Web Quick's menus. If you experience problems, contact ZMac for an update, or try Nobu Toge's shareware Flash-It 3.0.2 utility.
The requirements below are met by default when installing Web Quick in a standard Mac OS environment:
CE Toolbox
This system extension must not load after Web Quick
Now Super Boomerang
This system extension must not load before Web Quick
~ATM [Adobe Type Manager]
This system extension must not load before Web Quick
If you use a startup management utility (Now Startup Manager, Conflict Catcher) the sorting functions in these tools may force Web Quick to load last.
If so, Web Quick advises you of a potential conflict at startup, and asks you to reorder your extensions and restart. Until you do so, Web Quick disables itself.
Open your startup management utility, and drag Web Quick up above these items [but not ahead of CE Toolbox], to an appropriate place in the load order.
It is recommended that you place Web Quick in normal alphabetical order among your other extensions, ahead of your control panels.
Help
For help with Web Quick 1.0 for Macintosh, start your browser (Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer) and then choose Help from the Web Quick menu. Check the Quick Reference, Help Index, and other Help topics.
Technical Support
Europa Software offers Web Quick owners 60 days of no-charge product support via email at support@europasoftware.com. Send email to supportFAQ@europasoftware.com for late-breaking answers to frequent questions.
Updates & Upgrades
Web Quick 1.0 is the first release of a new generation of products designed by and for Web-using professionals. Europa Software will rapidly upgrade Web Quick, in step with the rapid evolution of the market-leading browser environments.
Please check Europa Software's Web site frequently for special offers and news about updates and upgrades.
What's Installed with Web Quick
Extensions folder:
• Web Quick extension
• Web Quick Extras folder, containing
◊ local HTML Help files for fast access
— if absolutely necessary, you can delete these items to save disk space, but Help will appear more slowly,
as they must then be loaded from the Europa Software, Inc. Web server.
Desktop:
• this Read Me file
Items added when first starting up with Web Quick
Preferences folder:
• Web Quick Prefs folder, containing
◊ Web Quick PageMarks files — stores navigation history
◊ Web Quick Preferences file — stores general product Preferences
◊ Web Quick Topics — stores the Topic database
Having Trouble Getting Started?
Problem: the Web Quick icon doesn't appear in the menu bar, or is partially overlapped by one of my custom menus
Cause: A) You probably are using a startup management utility (Now Startup Manager, Conflict Catcher) and it has forced Web Quick to load last, after all your other active extensions and control panels. One of these is ~ATM, or Now Super Boomerang; Web Quick advised you of this with a startup alert.
Solution: Open your startup manager, and drag Web Quick up to its normal place in alphabetical order, toward the end of the extensions [i.e. after Network Extension, QuickTime, Speech Manager etc.] and ahead of your control panels [like After Dark, Color, Date & Time, Desk Patterns, etc].
Cause: B) You are using Now Menus 5.x or 6.x, and you have defined one or more custom menus in the menu bar. Web Quick relocates itself automatically to avoid an overlapping Now Menus custom menu locations, but, it may not succeed in some circumstances.
Solution: Hold down the Command key, and drag your Now Menus custom menu icons to the right. The Web Quick Icon appears. Now command-drag the Web Quick icon to another available location.
Problem: my Mac crashes when I first pull down the Web Quick icon or click in the menu bar
Cause: See above; your startup manager is making Web Quick load last, and causing an extension conflict.
Solution: Open your startup manager, and drag Web Quick up to its normal alphabetical position. Restart.
Problem: when registering my trial copy securely, I get an error saying that Europa's server is too busy or has gone down.
Cause: Web Quick automatically brings you to our site to register. You then choose either a secure or non-secure registration form. Your Internet connection passes through an incorrectly configured firewall, letting you use TCP port 80 (the normal Web server port), but not port 443 — required by secure Web servers.
Solution:
Short-term Remedy:
1) to register Web Quick, use the non-secure form one of two ways:
• take a minimal risk: register Web Quick online. There is a tiny chance of interception, and the impact of somebody potentially capturing your name and address is probably not a major concern. (If it is, don't do this.)
or,
• play it safe: complete the registration form, print it, and fax it to Europa at 503.796.9134. Please allow 48 hours turnaround. For further assistance, please email service@europasoftware.com.
2) to buy Web Quick, use the non-secure form to:
• play it safe, only: complete the Purchase form, print it, and fax it to Europa at 503.796.9134. Please allow 48 hours turnaround. For further assistance, please email service@europasoftware.com.
Long-term Remedy:
Get your administrator to fix the firewall so you can access secure Web servers. Register and buy Web Quick securely.
Problem: just after I register (or buy) Web Quick using a Secure form, I'm warned that information is about to be sent insecurely!
Cause: After secure registration and purchase, Web Quick loads a non-secure Thank You page. Both the Netscape and Microsoft browsers are set by default to warn you every time you transition from a secure page to a non-secure page (and vice versa).
The data you just sent is safe. Your browser is zealously warning you when it encouters the non-secure Thank You page.
Solution:
Use the checkboxes in the warning dialog to turn future warnings off.
You can identify secure forms display a purple border, just under the title area at the upper edge of the browser window.
• Netscape Navigator also displays a golden key in the lower left corner; the key is in two pieces on a non-secure form.
• Internet Explorer displays a locked padlock in the lower left corner; in non-secure mode, the padlock hasp is open (unlocked).
Europa Software, the Europa Software logo, Web Quick, and the Web Quick logo are trademarks of Europa Software, Inc. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Netscape Navigator is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation. Internet Explorer is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other marks and proprietary names acknowledged and used for identification and compatibility purposes only.
