Those cheeky BT Internet people seem to have embedded links to IE in their special diallers of which I have several such as “Free” and “Daytime”. I’m happy with IE but have Netscape for comparison. Although I use NT4, I have checked the following on Win98 and it holds good for that as well.
The simplest solution I have found is to stop using the special diallers with the BT icons and create your own Dial Up Networking (DUN) entry(ies). DUN is in “My Computer”. You’ll need the exact telephone number(s) for your ISP(s) that the Surf-Time dialler uses – including, perhaps, the 1470 code so that your ‘phone number can be “read” by the host computer. You either know this number or it will be in an “*.ini” file. The DUN entry will hold your username and password.
Once you’ve got a DUN entry working, you can put a shortcut to it on your desktop with a suitable name. And to be really smart, you can force the shortcut to use the BT icon from the BT “exe” file for cosmetic reasons only. When finished, Internet access will require two steps; first, dialling the host and logging on using your shortcut; second, opening Netscape.
In IE you can turn these two steps into one in the “properties/connection” dialogue box. Maybe someone else knows how to do this in Netscape.