I seriously doubt it, since I believe you got the redhat rpm, not the
mandrake one (which doesn't even exist, I believe). Hand-editing
preferences.js doesn't make any sense to me, since it will be
regenerated as soon as you change anything in your preferences through
the browser itself.
If you change the home page in the "Home page" box under
Edit->Preferences->Navigator and hit "OK", preferences.js _should_
change to reflect that. Does it? Also, is the first box "Browser
starts with" set to "Home page"?
If these functions don't work, I'd say something is seriously
wrong. Perhaps you should scrap the rpm and get the tarfile from
netscape itself - that works like a charm as far as I can tell
(besides it being the usual bloatware).
-- Alex
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 07:11:12PM -0500, Yongling Ding wrote:
| that won't work. what i did to solve it is to edit preferences.js directly
| to specify the startup page. weird. where does it get the information about
| the mandrake page then? compiled into the binary file?
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex ZIJDENBOS
| Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 7:00 PM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7
|
|
| I would remove (or move) the entire ~/.netscape directory and fire up
| netscape again. It's probably somehow left over from previous netscape
| configs. You probably want to first copy your
| ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html file though - if you care about your
| bookmarks.
|
| -- Alex
|
