[WEB4LIB] Disabling Netscape buttons

[Andrew Mutch]

Lynne,

If you haven't looked at my page describing how to do this, see:

http://northville.lib.mi.us/tech/searchbt.htm

If you have done this per the instructions and it is still not working, a
couple of things to check to troubleshoot this:

1.  Make sure that Netscape is closed before making changes to prefs.js -
otherwise, your changes may be overwritten.

2.  Disable your security software.  It may be preventing you from saving
changes to the file.

3.  Make sure that read-only is turned off before making the changes and is
turned on after saving the changes and before you reopen Netscape.

If none of these do the trick, please contact me directly and I will see if
I can help you through this.
The "Shop Button" method doesn't work for other tool bar methods.
Apparently, the Netscape engineers realized that his "improvement" would
annoy many users and provided a method to get rid of it.  Too bad they
didn't do that for other toolbar buttons.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

"L. E. Puckett" wrote:

> Our public library is running the Netscape 4.08 Standalone browser, with
> WinSelect, on Win95/Pentium machines. We have a problem with the "My
> Netscape" button in the latest version of the Standalone - it goes right
> to the Netscape home page.
>
> Since these machines are for database access only, not Internet
> generally, we need a way to get rid of that button, or disable it. I
> have tried modifying the prefs.js file as directed by the "How to Change
> the URL of the Netscape tool bar search button" article on the Sunsite
> Berkeley page, modified for the "my Netscape", but I must not be writing
> it correctly because it didn't work. I also tried disabling it with the
> instructions for "How to kill the Netscape Shop Button" but that didn't
> work either. I went through the Web4Lib archives for button disabling,
> but the only msg I found had no answers posted, it was just the
> question, like this one.
>
> So, how do I disable/delete/dispose of the "My Netscape" button? Can
> anyone help? Pretty please? would appreciate any possible assistance.
>
> Lynne
> --
> L.E. Puckett
> Parmly Billings Library
> 510 North Broadway
> Billings,  MT  59101