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. > > -- > Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich > == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == > > How you look depends on where you go. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
