![]() When Netscape was open sourced, MCD fell by the way side. The file was byte shifted by 7 bytes, so a user could not modify the file, and if they removed it, Communicator wouldn’t start at all. MCD worked by generating a new netscape.cfg with various customizations and then packaging that file as a part of a standard Communicator install. If you were to look at an installation of Communicator, you would see a file called netscape.cfg file in the same directory where the executable was located. MCD was Netscape’s enterprise solution for customizing Netscape Communicator. This is the story of Netscape Mission Control Desktop (MCD). Next up in our series on customizing Firefox is the infamous autoconfig file.īefore I go into detail about how autoconfig works, I want to give you a quick history lesson. I’m doing a series where I go over each method of customizing Firefox (that I know about) and detail how it works and what it can change.
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