Communicator as Default Browser
Applies to: CommunicatorOperating Systems: Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT.
Problem Symptoms: "How do I make Communicator my default browser and Netscape Mail and News my defaults? When I check options I can't seem to find the way to do it."
Solutions: If communicator is not your default browser, and when you start it up it does not ask to become the default browser, then:
With communicator CLOSED, locate the prefs.js in your ..\netscape\users\(username)\ folder.BACKUP PREFS.JS BEFORE PROCEEDING TO EDIT IT !!!!!
Open the file in notepad or some other text editor and find the line that reads:
user_pref("browser.wfe.ignore_def_check", true);
Change the true to false and save the file.
If the line above is NOT there then you must ADD it to the prefs.js file after changing the "true" to "false"
Now when you start communicator it should ask; indicate to it that it should become the default.
