Re: TECH: Netscape, removing search histories

[Dan Robinson / Indexing Services <drobinson@INFO.HWWILSON.COM>]

This is in reply to Joanne Sullivan's post of April 7, 1997 and an
earlier one from Fred Newton:

I  found a way to remove the search history from the Location
box in Netscape. I don't think this technique has been posted before.
MSIE users should probably look for something similar.

In the Netscape.ini file, there is a paragraph that is labelled [URL
history].  The latest searches will be listed there. Use an editor
(like notepad) to access the .ini file and delete the lines under the
paragraph label.

When you restart netscape, there won't be anything when you press the
down arrow in the Location: box.

To always guarantee a clean opening, you could save a clean
netscape.ini under a different name and copy it over every morning.
The copy could probably even be part of your boot in autoexec.bat.

Editing the URL HISTORY  would also be a way to have a permanent
list of sites ready to go at any time.

This paragraph  in the .INI should not be confused with the
NETSCAPE.HST file, which also saves each address that the browser has
accessed.


Dan Robinson
Editorial Specs Specialist
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@info.hwwilson.com