Re: Startup Page is Not Blank

[William L. Hartzell]

David Forrester wrote:

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:57:06 UTC, "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Sir:

Kris Steenhaut wrote:

"William L. Hartzell" schreef:

I've selected a blank page as my startup page.  But in both OS2WEB
Browser and Mozilla 2.1a, using the same profile, I get some other web
page, the default home page for those browsers.  How do I fix this.

You shouldn't worry about that as it only occurs once immediately after a new
install.

Thanks for your reply. I installed OS2WEB Browser the day after it was released. This has been happening every launch of the program since, both/either of them.

I have a similar problem because I share my profile between my OS/2 and Win2000 on my laptop. This generally works OK, but, sometimes when
I install a new build on or the other (about three nightlies a week for OS/2, about once a week for Win2000), I see the same problem when
I swap between them. Generally it sorts itself out after a couple of openings on each OS.

Now in your case, OS/2 Web Browser is basically Mozilla 1.01. And you're also running Mozilla 1.2a. And, in my prefs.js are these lines:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override", false);
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.2b");

I'm guessing, that when you swap between the two browsers, these lines
are checked, and because they don't match the current browser version,
the appropriate Mozilla home page is written. Then the above lines are updated with the version of the current browser.

Mike has said not to use the same profile with different versions of Mozilla as there is no guarantee they will be compatible.

Your explaination seems logical. As a quick test I open and closed the same browser twice and on the second time, it did not go to the home page of that version. Thanks.
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Bill
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