For Netscape Navigator
or Communicator on Windows 3.1 or 3.11:
Windows "Notepad" works well for this purpose but any text editor will do. Open the
"NETSCAPE.INI" file, which is probably either in your "C:\WINDOWS" directory or in the directory
where you installed the Netscape software. In this file you will find a
section titled "[URL History]", followed by lines which begin with "URL_1=", "URL_2="
etc, Delete all of the text after the equals sign for each one of these lines, then save the file and run Netscape
Navigator again.
For Netscape Communicator
4.x or Navigator 4.x on Windows 95 or
Windows NT:
The information in the Location pulldown menu is stored in a file named "prefs.js" on your computer.
This file should be in a subdirectory under the directory where Netscape Communicator is installed on your computer;
usually "C:\ProgramFiles\Netscape\Users\yourname\prefs.js".
Find this file on your hard disk, and open in any text editor. You'll see several lines in that file that resemble
the following:
user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_1",
"http://help.netscape.com/");
user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_2",
"http://altavista.digital.com/");
user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_3",
"http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/");
user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_4",
"http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html");
These lines (only the ones which say "browser.url_history" in them) define what shows up in the Location
pulldown menu. Delete all of these lines (but not any other lines
in the file), then save your changes and start Communicator. The Location menu should now be empty.
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