* David Robertson (der@dsl.pipex.com) [030302 13:43]: -> ->Thanks Ben - I have java working fine in Netscape 7 (and Mozilla) now. So, I'm ->half way there with my task! For my online banking I need java, but I also ->need to change the user agent, so I tried installing the PrefBar from ->xulplanet so I could do that. It installed OK but doesn't seem to interact ->well with java on Mozilla - the browser just crashes if I change the user ->agent and try to access the bank site. So, I had hoped this might work with ->Netscape instead but it's just the same. On browsing for help with this, it ->seems that java is dependent on a certain user agent setting and doesn't take ->kindly to it being changed. I'm getting into realms that I really don't ->understand now, so maybe I'll just have to stick with telephone banking! No problem. You can change the user agent in mozilla/netscape7 by putting this line in a file called user.js in ~/.mozilla/<bunch of letters>/username/ The line looks like this. user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"); It is one line so make sure it's not broken when you save the file. But remember that once Mozilla or Netscape loads and reads this file it will add this line to your prefs.js in the same directory. You must delete both to get it back to normal. You can pretty much put any browser ident in this file. I once had MSIE 101; Windows NT 12.0 and it worked fine. These places that use the user agent string to identify browsers for much more then a general understanding of what people are using are just fooling themselves. Anyway..complain to your bank. They should let any modern browser into their site that does SSL and the like. I've switched banks over this silly behavior. :) Cheers! -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.