[ale] Silencing netscape talkback

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:32 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> Or... you just don't fill in the personal information and submit the
> crash report any way. The personal information is in no way required
> to submit the crash report. If you really don't like it, just don't
> install the talkback agent when you install the browser; it does give
> you that option.

I always fill in Bill.Gates at microsoft.com
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:13:54 -0500, Bob Toxen <bob at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
> > As those who use Netscrape, I mean, Netscape know, it now has a "talkback"
> > feature where it pops up a Window and demands that you answer personal
> > questions.  While this window has a "x" button, it is disabled.
> > 
> > Even exiting Netscrape leaves this damn thing around, requiring "kill".
> > 
> > However, doing the following as root will silence it forever:
> > 
> >      su root
> >      cd /usr/local/netscape/components/talkback
> >      mv talkback talkback.real
> >      cp /bin/echo talkback
> > 
> > Note that I normally use Opera, which has much better manners.
> > 
> > (Please lets not start a flame war on which is the better browser.)
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Bob Toxen, CTO
> 
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