Bug 6850 – Navigator is always opening /usr/doc/HTML/index.html at startup

Bug 6850 - Navigator is always opening /usr/doc/HTML/index.html at startup

Summary:	Navigator is always opening /usr/doc/HTML/index.html at startup

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	netscape (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	1999-11-09 06:54 EST by joe
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:11 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2000-02-12 15:25:28 EST
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Description joe 1999-11-09 06:54:48 EST

The Netscape navigator is launched via a script
/usr/bin/netscape. This script attempts to set the
users homepage to

	/usr/doc/HTML/index.html

automatically, unless the user disabled displaying
the homepage at startup. It does so by looking into the
users preferences.js file.

However, the detection is broken, because line 166 reads
  if grep "\"browser.startup.homepage\"" \
and not
  if grep "\"browser.startup.page\"" \
as it ought to.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-11-09 11:20:59 EST

Huh? Looking in preferences.js here, the line is
'browser.startup.homepage'.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-11-09 16:57:59 EST

Oh, I see. browser.startup.page is 'display blank page/homepage/last
page', while .homepage is the actual homepage.

If you just set the home page to *something*, then setting it
to 'display blank page' should work OK with the script as is.
I'll look at fixing this...

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-12 15:25:59 EST

This should be fixed in the current netscape build (-4 or so) that
will be available in the next rawhide release.

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