NS Comm. location field Deletion

Isabel Danforth danforth at tiac.net
Thu Apr 23 11:27:05 EDT 1998


Can you  copy a clean copy of that file into there on bootup?

Isabel



At 08:15 AM 4/23/98 -0700, HIS wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We're running Communicator 4, on Windows '95 machines.
>Due to the great posts here in Web4Lib I've been able to delete
>out cache and .hst files from our machines.  
>
>I need to be able to delete the "Location Field Popup Menu" of the 
>URLs it stores there.
>
>According to Netscape (http://help.netscape.com/kb/client/961024-3.html)the
>location field popup urls are commonly stored in
>c:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\<name>\prefs.js
>
>Sure enough when I opened prefs.js in a textpad there were my urls.
>Example follows:
>user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_1", "www.yahoo.com/");
>user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_10", "www.clbooks.com/");
>user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_11", "www.dejanews.com/");
>
>However there are all the other preferences in that folder as well, so
>deleting the entire file in the bootup process does not seem like an option.
>
>Does anyone know how to delete the popup menu at the start of each session?
> Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>Cynthia Hetherington
>Englewood Public Library, NJ
>
>
>
>
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