<contents transferred from bugsplat 332078) RFE: disable/change Messenger start page w/Edit|Preferences The most common complaint about Messenger I'm hearing from customers is about the Messenger Start page. If you have your prefs set to confirm before sending cookies, it pops up several dialogs. If you are using a slow dialup, it wastes time downloading the page when it could be downloading messages. The help.netscape.com technote on how to disable this has only been up a week and it's already the 28th most requested client technote (was 40-something only a few days ago) and I fully expect it to be in the top 10 within another week. We need to put this in Edit|Preferences under the Mail & News section so that users can disable or change this page without having to edit their preferences by hand. This should be similar to the setting of the Navigator's home page. ------- Additional Comments From granrose 11/18/98 16:29 ------- This is still by far the most common complaint/request from customers and from end users via feedback forms and newsgroups (followed closely by users wanting support for multiple pop accounts in a single profile). The technote describing how to disable this page is now the 9th most popular tech note on help.netscape.com for all products, not just client and had over 2800 hits just in the last 7 days. Bumping to TS2 to raise visibility.

adding qa contact to pmock.

Reassigning to chuang since she's probably doing the prefs dialogs.

Change target milestone to M5

*** Bug 5120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

correcting platform to All.

Move after beta

I don't think this needs to be fixed by PR1

M13 is pre-B1, so moving to M14, and assigning to prefmeister alecf

stealing for alecf, since I got the fix in my tree.

fixed.

the ui for this is under Edit | Preferences | Mail And Newsgroups.

Verified as fixed on win32, linux and ppc using the following build: ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/2000-01-02-09-M13/sea monkey32e.exe ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/unix/linux_glibc/2.2/x86/2000-01-02-09- M13/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/macos/8.x/ppc/2000-01-02-08-M13/netscap e5-mac-M13.sea.bin I verified that I can a) enable and disable start page, b) change start change to a different location by typing in a new location (file or url), and c) use the "Use current page" button to change the start page. Two separate problem found: 1) the "select file" button on Mac and windows does not put the correct path information causing the page to fail to load and the folder not to display. 2) the "select file" button brings up the browse dialog on linux but all the controls appear locked up. * I will lock seperate bugs on these issues. 2)

Thanks, Seth!