netscape 7

[Tim Wunder]

On 9/25/2002 3:02 PM, someone claiming to be Lee wrote:
> 
> 
> Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
>> On 9/25/2002 12:32 PM, someone claiming to be Lee wrote:
>>
>>> Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine 
>>> incorporated into it; unless you default load to a browser like 
>>> netscape, with all its advertising cruft, or www.google or something 
>>> like  it. By itself it is totally useless unless you happen to have 
>>> the http address of the site you want. If you want info on something 
>>> like the Hykosis Kings try punching that into mozilla's search and 
>>> you get a can't find server error message. It also has a rather nasty 
>>> tendency to lockup on my box for no known reason. But, that might be 
>>> because it doesn't like my particular box; so,I wouldn't fault it 
>>> pending further evidence.
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Huh?
>> /me types "Hykosis Kings" in the URL bar, then clicks 
>> Search...(although I much prefer pressing the <down arrow> to 
>> highlight the "Search <default search engine> for" dialog and pressing 
>> <Enter>):
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=Hyksos+Kings&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=n&oq=Hykosis+Kings 
>>
>>
>> seems to work... maybe that's cuz I'm currently using the Windows 
>> version... let's try under linux...
>> yep... same thing.
>>
>> Perhaps your default search engine is horked... 
>> Edit-Preferences-Navigator-Internet Search and choosing a default 
>> search engine that works
>>
>> HTH,
>> Tim
> 
> 
> Not horked at all. 

Again, I say to you... huh?

 > ...If I use the mozilla home page as default get can't
> find server error.

This is a routing issue, The default Home page for Mozilla should come 
up fine. It does for me.

>  ...When I setup Netscape as home page and type in 
> Hykosis Kings and hit search, defaults to the netscape Ask Jeeves search 
> engine. If I have to use Netscape and all its ads  for a search engine 
> then mozilla has little advantage in that time wise it must still load 
> the netscape home page then access the ask Jeeves search engine. It may 
> be a couple months ahead of netscape but all that seems to mean is that 
> it's got all the bugs that will be solved before netscape distributes it.
> 

Oh, I see, you typed "home page" but you meant default search engine.
If you don't want Netscape, use Google. Google works for me, and it's 
quite fast. I believe you can even configure your own, although it may 
involve editing the user.js file in your profile. You might find info here:
http://www.vorstrasse91.com/moztips/
or here
http://www.hmetzger.de/net6e.html

I haven't looked real hard (as I said, Mozilla's search feature, using 
Google, works great for my purposes) for a user.js code for adding a 
default search engine.

Stuff particular to Mozilla searching can be found here:
http://www.vorstrasse91.com/moztips/sidebar_search_plugins.html
(if you're interested in using Mozilla's Sidebar for searching -- not 
something that interests me)

Or, you can create a bookmark keyword that points to the search engine 
you want...
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

HTH,
Tim