Changing Keyword Servers in Mac Communicator 4.5

Nov
25
1998
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  • This is probably not kosher with Netscape's Liscense.
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  • If somebody has good info on how to do this on windows please let me know
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    How to Change Keyword Servers in Netscape Communicator 4.5










  • Do this with a copy of Netscape Communicator 4.5. Work only on a copy whenever you're working with resedit.
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  • Launch Resedit
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  • Open a copy of Netscape Communicator with Resedit
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  • Double click on the "Text"
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  • Select the item called "3010" "allprefs" but
    don't open it
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  • Copy it (command-C)
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  • Switch to BBEdit
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  • Paste (command-V)
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  • Edit the preference line which says "pref("network.search.url", \"
    http://keyword.netscape.com/
    ");" -- It's near the top.
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  • See the notes about what this does.
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  • Select ALL
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  • NOTE:
    Make sure there isn't a blank line at the end of the file. If there is you may have problems with prefs which will likely show up right away as color preference problems.
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  • Copy it (command-C)
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  • Switch back to Resedit
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  • Paste (command-V) into the "Text" table you left open
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  • Delete the "3010" "allprefs" item
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  • Select the item you just pasted (it should be number 129)
    don't open it
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  • Choose
    Get Resorce Info
    from the
    Resource
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  • Renumber the resource "3010", give it the name "allprefs", and check the "purgable" button
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  • Save it and launch your copy of communicator.
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    More Info:










  • See
    How Netscape Does Keywords
    -- also has some info on the "What's Related" feature.
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  • Something similar should work for Windows too but I haven't had time to test it yet.
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  • MacFixIt
    has info on changing the memory cache for Macs. A Netscape engineer wrote to
    MacFixIt
    about not editing the resource directly in ResEdit because of limits to TextEdit.
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