netscape 7

[Aaron Grewell]

To state the obvious, I think we have a bit of a misunderstanding here. 
If I understand Lee correctly, he's complaining that when you type stuff
in the location bar of Mozilla and press <Enter> it tries to load
"www.stuff you typed.com" and gives an error.  Netscape and IE both send
the stuff you typed to a search engine automagically and look it up for
you.  I realize that's not what he said, but I'm pretty sure that's what
he meant.  Fixing this in Mozilla requires some hacking of prefs.js to
make it "do the right thing".  You have to turn on "internet keywords"
in Preferences and then customize prefs.js to change the site used by
Internet Keywords to do its search.  The stuff to put in prefs.js is
here: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html

IMHO it makes Mozilla much more friendly, and I'm hoping it will be
available directly in the Preferences window in the future.  In fact, it
may be.  I haven't tried a new build since 1.1 came out.

HTH

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 12:24, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Lee wrote:
> >
> >
> > Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Lee wrote:
> > >
> > >>Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine
> > >
> > >
> > > For starters, i'm not even sure you're right about this.  But even if you
> > > are, why should a web browser have a search engine integrated into it?
> > > Does the word bloat mean anything to you?
> >
> > A search engine is what makes the difference between a true net browser
> > and a net router. I do other things than Linux; therefore, I need
> 
> No it doesn't.  And your terminology has some very questionable meanings
> anyway.
> 
> > information that may not be in http format such as the Hykosis Kings who
> > ruled Egypt at the time of the Exodus. Typing in Hykosis Kings into user
> > search or even Exodus yields can't find server if using mozilla default
> > page or if using netscape for home page it will default to Ask Jeeves
> > search engine under netscape. But, then it's a matter of what you use
> > your computer for. If you use the net to search a wide based information
> > group you need a search engine. If you only have one topic you'll ever
> > research you can always rely on www.linuxwhatever.com. Course you could
> >   use Lynx and cut out all the bloat of mozilla. Then one man's bloat is
> > another's needful feature.
> 
> Sorry, your argument above doesn't convince me of the need to have an
> embeded search engine in a web browser.  Actually, i dont' even follow
> your argument.  What is so difficult about pointing your browser to
> http://google.com ?
> 
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