SillyDog701

[dhumpal]

The site addressed below claims to be able to put back Mozilla functions (like ad-blocking) to NS7. Before I go there and use his program to do that, does anyone know if this works or if there are problems with it? The site is linked (I hope) below:
http://hmetzger.de/restore.html

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (CK-SillyDog)

[profman]

Check out the "official" "unofficial" way of adding back the adblocking capability.

http://ufaq.org/ns7/adblocker.html

I and some others prefer a more flexible approach and use Preferences Toolbar 2 found at:

http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/

Prefbar allows you to turn adblocking "on" and "off" easily and has several other functions. The only problem I had with it is some minor display problems in NS7 under Win2000 (but not Win98).

I believe that the German site that you mention is quite reliable. My personal reservation is that the explanations of what he does are not complete enough, and I'd rather take small steps that I understand instead of one leap to "fix" all problems at once.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (nscd2)

[Ramona]

I might add one comment to profman's. The combined addons referred to (Restore) can be edited. I was desperate to find a way to delete the "Privacy/Referrer Header" fix, as it interferes with viewing the counters on my web pages. I did find the file, aaa.js, and was able to delete that one entry. The file can be found and edited in:
C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape\defaults\pref

Ramona

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011022 Netscape6/6.2

[Hendikins]

Settings changed and what they do:

pref("imageblocker.enabled", true); - Enables Image Manager

pref("javascript.allow.mailnews", false); - Turns Javascript off in Mail/News

pref("browser.popupdisablingUI.enabled",true); - Enables the "Open Unrequested Windows" checkbox in Javascript prefs

pref("network.cookie.disableCookieForMailNews", true); - Disables cookies in Mail/News

pref("browser.registration.enable", false); - Disables Registration*

pref("mail.display_struct", true); - Restores the "plaintext tags" in Mail/News

pref("mailnews.message_display.allow.plugins", false); - Disables plugins in Mail/News

pref("mailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image", true); - Disables remote images in Mail/News

pref("mailnews.fakeaccount.show", false); - I guess that removes the Webmail "account"*

pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 1); - Don't send referrer for images (I guess this could break some porn sites? Not that I look at that stuff...)

The above prefs can be added to prefs.js or user.js by hand, except for those marked with * - they must be added to all-ns.js to function.

All in all, I'd say it works pretty much as advertised.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021109