[CS-FSLUG] Mozilla stupidity

Thu Oct 7 01:21:24 CDT 2004

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:17:00 -0500
Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:05:37 -0400
> Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I always create a local homepage with links I normally use.  I do
> > still use bookmarks, but mainly just include links to local
> > news/weather - things like that.  I guess blank pages just don't
> > make much sense to me. :)
> 
> When your only connection is really slow dialup, home pages are a
> nuisance. That, plus I don't like leaving something large running when
> not in use, so I may need to open it when I'm not online, and who
> wants a bunch of error messages?

I'm sure he means a 'static' (on your hard disk) homepage.
I use [a modified] one that comes with [Debian] Mozilla. It is quite
easy to make one as I'm sure you know -- just create a .html document
with links to all your favourite websites and put it in your home
directory. Then open your favourite browser, navigate to the .html
document you created and then tell the browser to use it as your 'home
page'. Here is what mine looks like (it's actually in/usr/share:
file:///usr/share/doc/mozilla-browser/localstart.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html>
<head>
<title> Local Debian Start Page </title>
</head>
<body onload="document.getElementById('google-input').focus()">

<p>
<a href="http://www.debian.org/"><img style="border: none"
src="/home/nigel/Icons/debian.gif" alt="debian" width="235" height="61"
/></a><br /></p>

<h3>Debian mozilla package start page</h3>

<p>
This is a local page to avoid using the network on disconnected
machines. <br /></p>

<p>
<a href="about:readme-debian">README.Debian</a> of mozilla package<br />
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/mozilla-browser">Bug reports</a> for
mozilla-browser package<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.debian.org/"> Debian Project Homepage </a>
<br />
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/"> Mozilla Project Homepage </a>
<br />
<a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/"> Mozilla Bug Tracking System </a>
<br />
<a href="http://www.debianplanet.org/"> Debian Planet - News site </a>
<br />
<a href="http://www.slashdot.org/"> Slashdot "News" site </a>
<br />
<a href="http://freshmeat.net/"> Freshmeat Software Index </a>
<br /><br />
<a href="/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.html"> Debian
Reference </a><br />
<a href="/usr/share/doc/linuxcookbook/cookbook.html"> Linux Cookbook
</a><br />
<a href="/home/nigel/Books/rute/index.html"> Rute </a>
<br />
<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/"> O'RIELLY Linux Commands
</a><br />
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=&tab=wi">
Google Image Search </a></p>

<form action="http://www.google.com/images" method="get" id="google">
<p>
<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256"
id="google-input" /><input type="submit" value="Search" />
</p>

</form>
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/"> Google General Search </a>
</p>

<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get" id="google">
<p>
<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256"
id="google-input" /><input type="submit" value="Search" />
</p>
</form>

<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/linux"> Google Linux Search </a>
</p>
<form action="http://www.google.com/linux" method="get">
<p>
<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" />
<input type="hidden" name="restrict" value="linux" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</p>
</form>

<p>
<a href="http://directory.google.com/"> Google Web Directory </a>
</p>

<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get">
<p>
<input type="hidden" name="cat" value="gwd/Top" />
<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

It's quite a complicated one but sure cuts down on navigating within
google to get where I want :-)

Blessings,

Nigel

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