(This bug imported from BugSplat, Netscape's internal bugsystem. It was known there as bug #339562 http://scopus.netscape.com/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=339562 Imported into Bugzilla on 02/04/99 15:53) Reported by Dave Rothschild (daver@netscape.com) Build: Win32 4.51 Jan13a US Pro build installed on Compaq P133, NT 4.0 SP 4 Win32 4.5 Nov 20b RTM US Pro build installed on Compaq P133, Win98 (This is not a regression.) Problem: If you change the Messenger Start Page user pref URL from the default: http://messenger.netscape.com/bookmark/4_5/messengerstart.html to http://messenger.netscape.com/communicator/messenger/start/index.html the start page loads in a separate Browser window instead of in the Message pane. This is a strange problem, because I can change the URL to different URLs such as: http://my.netscape.com, http://www.apple.com, http://www.adobe.com Question: could this be a re-direct problem on the server? I looked at the page source for these url (http://messenger.netscape.com/bookmark/4_5/messengerstart.html vs. http://messenger.netscape.com/communicator/messenger/start/index.html) and they appear the same. Background: Mail Start Page Spec can be found on http://rocknroll/users/jfriend/publish/startpage.html The Start Page code can be found in the "msgmpane.cpp" file. The Start Page was a new feature added in Nova. Note: this problem occurs in 4.5 RTM and 4.51 Jan13a build so this is not a regression. Steps to reproduce problem: 1) Exit Communicator 2) Open your Pref.js file in a text editor such as Notepad 3) Add the following line: (this should be one line) user_pref("mailnews.start_page.url", "http://messenger.netscape.com/communicator/messenger/start/index.html"); 4) Save your changes 5) Launch Communicator The browser window opens 6) Open Messenger 7) Log into Mail if you using IMAP (Don't select any mail message) The Start Page should load in the Message pane but it opens in to a browser window. *** I downloaded my Communicator from the Raquelita server. Please note that the Start Page is disabled for builds that your download from the internal Helpdesk server.

TFV to 5.0

This code is all gone and/or rewritten for 5.0. Marking invalid in bugzilla.

We'll verify this once we have this functionality in 5.0 that we can double check against.

lchiang, can this be marked Verified now?

I don't know if this preference is recognized in 5.0's prefs yet. I thought that the mail start page was hard coded in.

According to Seth Spitzer, the user preference to specify the Messenger start page has not been implemented yet. It's currently hard coded in one of the XUL files. Logged place holder bug 8360 to create this user pref and assigned it to sspitzer.

Verified as invalid. Sspitzer added the default user prefs for the start page. The default: user_pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", true); user_pref("mailnews.start_page.url", "http://people.netscape.com/sspitzer/ startpage.html"); I tried changing the default URL on today seamonkdy Win32 (1999062208) and PPC (1999062208) builds and could not reproduce this problem.