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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to get rid of annoying Netscape "smart" feature was  Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 20:08:06 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Rafael Santos wrote:
> 
> brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes:
> 
> > : 8 seconds to start a 2nd netscape (not a child from the first).
> > : AMD133Mhz 486, 32Mb RAM, 100Mb swap, 1Gig Fireball. No problems.
> > : Netscape 3.01 Gold.
> >
> > Yes.  It seems that netscape is trying to something "smart" - like send/
> > receive a cookie with netscape.com.  If I start it up while I'm
> > net-connected, it takes around 5-10 seconds.  The second time it takes 1
> > second.
> 
> When you're not connected (as I am often) it spends too
> much time to start and slows down whatever you want to do while
> waiting.
> 
> Is there any way to get rid of it ?

Try telling it to start with a blank page (Options | General |
Appearance) instead of a URL. Then it won't need to connect.
-- 
Ken

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