Nope, remember there's no startup page... the box is empty and the radio button says Blank page. I also tried with localhost in there.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:27:17PM -0700, Michael Smith wrote: > 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. -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, "Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball"
