21.4.2000
Coming from the "Stop Starting" department, Lockergnomie Joachim Ritschmann hacks his way into your good graces. Netscape mail users have been eternally frustrated with Messenger's Netscape.com advertisement (which loads every time). To avoid this, you should edit your preferences file (PREFS.JS) while Netscape is NOT running. Change the following line to reflect your choice: $user_pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", false);$ (everything between the dollar signs, but not the dollar signs themselves). While you're at it, you can change the Messenger Start Page to any URL of choice by entering the following snippet on one line: $user_pref("mailnews.start_page.url", "http://www.wherever.com/");$ (again, leave out the dollar signs). That'll get you going.