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To: jw who wrote (8770)	3/16/2000 2:11:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110626

thanks, jw i checked and my prefs.js did not have read only box checked. netscape users need all the tips they can find, it seems. recently i was ready to make the switch to msie. i used it for a couple days. it performed well. but my heart belongs to netscape. <g3> i did make a nice little discovery while in the process of almost switching to msie... i told netscape that it wasn't my default browser anymore. (i think this is accomplished by telling msie to check every time to see if it is the default browser.) by telling msie to check, that told netscape to check. so now i get that dialog box every time i open the browser. i never give it the answer it wants ("yes, you can be my browser"). now here's the kicker.... the crashiness has been drastically reduced! i can rationalize that in my mind by thinking of all the suspicious folks who say that it isn't beyond ms to plant little stumbling blocks along the way when it knows that ie isn't the default. so for now, i'm finding that netscape is doing much better when it is not my default browser. and the same goes for ie. ie has been stable, but i am not selecting it as a default. i am a man without a default browser! <g3> fwiw.... hope that doesn't sound too off the wall! :) mark