Sometime ago we got two or three apparently official notices of events.
1) The Microsoft browser is not safe because it does not observe mime types.
2) We received the new attractive entry page (blue & gray) for Freenet.
3) At about this time I lost my ability to log in to by ISP using its Earthlink 5.07.9 set to use the Mozilla browser. Earthlink's browser is an adaptation of mostly Microsoft's browser and seems to call most of it's functions from that browser.
Oh, I can still set it to log in using Earthlink and it does not activate either the main elements of its mailbox or its browser, but if I try to open the Freenet gateway, it immediately pops up the Earthlink browser which is essentially the Microsoft browser.
With all the puzzling problems that have been reports, I decided to lay back and wait to see if the system returned to reasonable usability.
On trying today, I found most of the material that is in Freenet sites can be found but I still cannot prevent the gateway from opening up the Earthlink-Microsoft browser even though Mozilla is already active in displaying the Earthlink site.
Does anyone have any ideas what action might break this duplicity of the Earthlink software. (I've not tried using the Netscape browser recently although in principle it might avoid the problem. Netscape is not really using all the improvements of Mozilla yet.) Using blackboxes that seem to have copious side effects is certainly not a sensible way for things to work on a communal system like either Internet or Freenet.
Thank for any ideas to try (whether they work or not).
--- Nicholas Sturm
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