Preserved Topic: Netscape Windows Browsing

My cousin just go out of working for a major chemical company, and he told me that they were using netscape to browse the operating system as default. How would this work. I thought that IE was built in and this could not be changed. Anyone have any information on this?

Start with a file: URL, and you're off to the races. Newer Netscrapes even let you type a DOS pathname in the location field as opposed to the goofy URL-encoded madness. What happens when you click a .exe file is different than in exploder, so I bet they still use shortcuts to executables the run a lot (Word and that nonsense).

where I work I can get access across the network using Netscape.. but I can only list directories and open the usual type of files that netscape will read.. (html, .txt, jpegs, etc etc).. when I use FILE --- OPEN, I can just go to another users ID and list their directories, as long as they havent locked out their directories.. maybe this is what your friend means?.

just a thought ~Vp~

edit: I need to trade in my fingers.... these ones are fualty

[This message has been edited by vogonpoet (edited 05-27-2001).]

Well this is a bit different. That is not a problem. But it uses NS like windows uses IE. It uses NS as the default.

You open up My Computer and netscape navigation loads, or you do a search or find, when you select the directory a NS file browse window opens up and not an IE window. It completely overwrites IE for use with the windows system, it uses netscape in its stead.

WarMage, can your cousin send a screenshot of that?

BTW This is technically impossible, because IE is embedded in the system (My Computer and other dialogs) as ActiveX component (*.ocx) and NS4 doesn't use ActiveX at all. Things are a little bit different with Mozilla, since there is a third part ActiveX wrapper, but it does only basic stuff...

He does not work there any longer.

It is possible to get IE out of the windows system. It was done by some students somewhere, for the M$ monopoly trial.

I have also seen this at once, don't remember where. But I believe it was done on an NT sytem.

There's a program called 98lite which can remove IE from the system (but, it does only that, it can't change shell to Netscape, for example)...