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Configuring Your Web Browser Netscape 4.0 1. Open Netscape, then click on the Edit menu at the top and select Preferences in the menu that drops down.
2. Under Category on the left side, make sure Navigator is highlighted. On the right side of the window under Navigator Starts with, make sure a dot is next to Home page. Under the Home page subhead, type in www.mymercury.net for the location. This will set your homepage to www.mymercury.net. Click the Appearence option under Category on the left side.
3. You may choose whichever components of Netscape start up when you first open the Netscape program. If you only want the browser window to open, just leave a check mark next to Navigator. Click the "+" sign next to Composer under Category. Then click on Composer to select it.
4. You may enter anything for an Author Name. Under External Editors, you may choose an external program to use as a text-only HTML editor when you choose to Edit Source in Netscape Composer. Click on the Publishing option beneath Composer.
5. Make sure the first two options are check marked. That way when you site is published to the web, all the links and images on your webpage work and are displayed properly on the Internet. Under Default publishing location, type in pages.tm.net. Next to If publishing to a FTP site... type pages.tm.net/login_name. Click the "+" sign next to Advanced on the left side to expand the options beneath it. Then click on Advanced to highlight it.
6. Set the options according to the window below, then click the Cache option under Advanced.
7. Each webpage is stored in your browser's cache memory for fast access to the website later on. If a website has links that no longer work, first try clicking the Reload button in your browser window. If that doesn't work, then clearing the Memory and Disk Cache is the next step. Click the Proxies option under Category.
8. Make sure a dot is next to Direct connection to the Internet. Then click OK.
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