[ILUG] netscape problems

Raymond Kelly ray at skynet.ie
Wed Sep 13 17:31:09 IST 2000


Paul Jakma wrote:
> yep it's netscape trying to find things on the internet. disable
> 'what's related' completely from your preferences. set your home page
> to something local (eg file:/).. etc. etc.
> 
> but i bet it will still hang on startup for 2 minutes.

You get around that by either removing any reference to news from your
Netscape preferences or adding a news entry to /etc/hosts pointing at
127.0.0.1

	Ray ...




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