Preferences SpiderWoman Essentials Preferences General Default URL is the URL of the page you want opened at launch time. You may also specify your preferred view for windows opened on new documents. The Search results and Open preferences let you decide what to do with new documents.
New window is straightforward.
Refer to the discussion on virtual links for the other option. The Historian is not part of this release. The News Host preference let you choose your News server address. If you are a NewsGrazer user, chances are that you will not have to change this. You can specify the directory in which you want to download files, for instance when accessing FTP servers or when fetching inlined images.