[arachne] Re: Browser Won't Start In Default Home Page

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Hi Jason,
                   BTW,   CRTL-L arrow doesn't
always get me the page I want after startup....
but....ALT-F1  always gives you your homepage
whatever your homepage is set at.   <ggg>

Eric

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:15:02 -0600 Jason Dodd <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> Udo,
> 
> Well said.
> 
> Udo Kuhnt wrote:
> > Eric,
> >
> > the key to display the Arachne Desktop screen is F10, not Alt-F1. 
> Alt-F1
> > displays the Arachne homepage, or whatever page you have selected 
> to be
> > your default homepage, as every serious Arachne user should know.
> >
> > Also, it does *not* depend on whether you use a DSL or an analog 
> modem
> > whether Arachne displays the homepage, as I know from my 56Kbit 
> times.
> > >From my experience, Arachne *always* starts at the default 
> homepage, and
> > displays an error message if one is not online and the page cannot 
> be
> > loaded.
> >
> > Besides, I regard it as pretty selfish of you that you do not want
> > Arachne to behave like it should just because you do not want to 
> use the
> > mouse. I know from your earlier statements in this forum that you 
> are
> > not the fanatic and mouse-o-phobic DOS user that you pretend to 
> be. You
> > use Windows all the time and surf the 'net using a Windows 
> browser, and
> > I bet you do it not only with your keyboard.
> >
> > Arachne is a graphical web browser; from the buttons to the links
> > everything has been designed to be most easily accessible with a
> > pointing device like a mouse. Most users would find it awkward to
> > control everything with the keyboard instead, particularly if they 
> have
> > used a browser like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer 
> before. That
> > Arachne has so many keyboard shortcuts is an added bonus, but it
> > definetely should not be required to press Alt-F1 on start-up 
> everytime
> > just to execute a function that is automatic in all major browsers 
> for
> > good reason.
> >
> > Why do *you* not simply press Ctrl-Left everytime you want to go 
> to the
> > previously visited page instead of suggesting that others should 
> press
> > Alt-F1 to go to the homepage page?
> >
> > Udo
> >
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> >
> > -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - 
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