Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 27

I wanted to look at the latest discussions from a new PC that I was setting up for a friend. I set up email and tested it. I had sent myself an email with the Visor Central webpage address link and when I clicked on it, Internet Explorer fired up. We don't want Internet Explorer, we want Netscape. I found plenty of hits on a search for "Netscape" in the registry (Netscape was already installed when I got there), but can't figure out where to edit to set a default. Reinstalling the software to get a default preference question seems like overkill. Am I missing something obvious and/or simple? You can select your default email and HTML editor, but not your browser?


I'll be patient as the burn index on this is low. If I don't get anyone looking at this post in a few days, maybe I'll resubmit it with the subject line "Pocket PC Rules!!" (one of the more inane debates on this board; pick a tool with the features you want and buy it!).


bjornsen, the browser challenged

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

Being the only staff member that uses NS, I had this problem once. Go to http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19971009-21.html to for the complete instructions, but basically edit in Notepad your prefs.js and change the following to false

user_pref("browser.wfe.ignore_def_check", true);

Can't wait for NS6 to be complete!



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James Hromadka
VisorCentral.com
Personal Website: http://www.Hromadka.com

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Provo, UT
Posts: 64

Thanks, James. I use Netscape also, but there were some cases when IE would come up instead. That fixed it.

Microsoft really makes it difficult to use other browsers, don't they? Seems like I frequently have to reset Netscape as my default browser because some app has set IE as the default again. I think a lot of people just use IE because it's too difficult to fight it.

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Moved to Clie Land
Posts: 331

James...I've been playing with NS6 for about two-three weeks(?) and have encountered few problems. Overall it has great potential..
Have you downloaded it yet? NS6

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"It's NOT a tumor!"

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

yeah, NS6 is cool, but is still buggy and crashed too often on my NT4 box. Check out www.mozilla.org for the most recent updates. They seemed more stable. I think it is up to M15 now.

We'll have to make sure we make a VisorCentral skin

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James Hromadka
VisorCentral.com
Personal Website: http://www.Hromadka.com

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Moved to Clie Land
Posts: 331

Speaking of...Check out WINDOWBLINDS Highly cool skins for windows that actually has a VISOR SKIN! But I prefer WIRED and LIQUID



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"It's NOT a tumor!"

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: I'm not sure, but I see lots of lights everywhere.
Posts: 1287

I'm running the WinAqua skin for WindowBlinds on Windows 2000. It makes my my desktop look like MacOS X! Pretty cool!

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Foo

Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 434

With all this talk of WindowBlinds, is it possible that there are other OS/2 acolytes here?

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

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Originally posted by foo fighter:
I'm running the WinAqua skin for WindowBlinds on Windows 2000. It makes my my desktop look like MacOS X! Pretty cool!

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