The Preferences menu under the Options menu is also another important feature.

Under the Preferences menu, the user can go into the Style menu. The Show Toolbar as allows the user to change the Toolbar setup, to their preference. The Start With option allows the user start up Netscape with a particular page automatically loaded or a blank page is automatically loaded up on the startup of Netscape. The user can even change how long followed links will last by using the Followed Links and changing the expire date on the links.

Under the Preferences menu, there is something called Helper Applications . The Helper Applications menu allows the user to configure programs to be used with Netscape. When a filetype is highlighted, the Action box is important. Here you can configure Netscape so that all files with the extension that you have chosen, will be always handled in the same way. The Use Browser as Viewer option allows the user to use Netscape as the browser or viewer. This is mainly used for looking at images. The Save option allows the user to always save the particular file type that they choose instead of viewing it on the srceen. The Unknown: Prompt User option allows the user to have a menu appear (see image below). The Launch Application option allows the user to configure a particular program to use with every file of a particular file type.

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