[WEB4LIB] Beware of pages changing your homepage. . .

[Michael Sauers]

> This is the first time I've even heard of the setHomePage javascript
> function. Has anyone else ran into this problem, and can it be defeated?

Well, this is a problem only from your point of view. The author of the site
has set this up to make the user's life easier in setting their homepage.
I'm sure the author did not consider that someone would use this to change
the homepage on a computer that wasn't theirs.

As for "fixing" the "problem" you would need to lock down the set homepage
option by write-protecting the prefs.js file. The link on the page would
still work but when you closed Netscape the change would not be kept.
However, this will also lock down many other options that you want not want
locked down.

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