the mandrake page is in the script file that mandrake uses to call the netscape
binary file. it is simple to remove from there. do a search for netscape and
then look inside the file, it check to see if you have the navigator or
communicator versions installed and then starts it with that file as a cla.
Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote:
> 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
> |
