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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to get rid of annoying Netscape "smart" feature was Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 20:08:06 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <32A5DA26.30DB@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32865667.232453159@news.qni.com> <328A54AF.35E6@execpc.com> <56ibh2$53m@anorak.utell.net> <32960C24.794BDF32@inferno.phys.tue.nl> <57a1qb$c6o@anorak.coverform.lan> <cukybfgqczu.fsf_-_@dse06.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Rafael Santos wrote: > > brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes: > > > : 8 seconds to start a 2nd netscape (not a child from the first). > > : AMD133Mhz 486, 32Mb RAM, 100Mb swap, 1Gig Fireball. No problems. > > : Netscape 3.01 Gold. > > > > Yes. It seems that netscape is trying to something "smart" - like send/ > > receive a cookie with netscape.com. If I start it up while I'm > > net-connected, it takes around 5-10 seconds. The second time it takes 1 > > second. > > When you're not connected (as I am often) it spends too > much time to start and slows down whatever you want to do while > waiting. > > Is there any way to get rid of it ? Try telling it to start with a blank page (Options | General | Appearance) instead of a URL. Then it won't need to connect. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |