Re: Netscape startup hangs
Fire up netscape, go to edit>preferences. Select navigator. There should be an
option "Browser Starts With:" Set that to "Blank Page". You might have to restart
netscape for it to take effect, but you have to restart it anyway (you can go
file>new>browserwindow) to see if it worked.
Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a spare old 486 into a freesco box (with diald), but the
> problem is; I would like to be able to launch Netscape to administer the
> thing (or read offline HTML pages) *without* dialing. Right now it hangs
> for a few minutes before it gives up and lets me use it.
>
> When I have this pointing directly to my modem, it's not a problem, it
> realizes there's no interface for it to use, so it lets me work with it
> offline, but when I enable a gateway through my NIC -- sigh.
>
> How can I prevent it from trying to hit (home.netscape.com? Or something
> like that?) the Internet until I'm good and ready?
>
> P.S. there is NO startup page set.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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