For Netscape 4.0 – 4.7, it is possible to search by entering “?
” in the URL box instead of a URL. You can set the search engine used in this case by directly editing the prefs file. This can be dangerous! See the section above for more details on editing the prefs.js file. Before starting, quit any copies of Netscape that may be running. For Windows: To edit the prefs file, use Notepad to load …\Netscape\Users\{username}\prefs.js. (“…” is probably the “Programs” folder.) For Macintosh: To edit the prefs file, use SimpleText or equivalent to load … :preferences:netscape f:netscape preferences. (“…” is your system folder.) For UNIX: Edit the file .netscape/preferences.js in your home directory. Once you’ve loaded the preferences file, add the following line to the end of the file: user_pref(“network.search.url”, “http://www.google.com/keyword/”); Google Search for example. Don’t forget to hit
