how to set default "home page" for all users in firefox

[john]

Thanks Craig and Philipp!

John

On 9/6/07, Philipp Hanselmann <philipp at schoolnet.na> wrote:
> Craig Szymanski schrieb:
> > ----- "john" <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I hope this is an easy one. I want to set the default home page for
> >> all users in firefox. I looked through gconf-editor but I don't see
> >> anything there that applies. Does anyone know how to do this?
> >>
> >>
> > Basically just edit this file...
> > sudo nano /etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js
> >
> > and add this...
> > user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.mydomain.com");
> >
> > If users on the system have already opened firefox and the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random>.default/prefs.js file is already present then you will probably have to remove the profiles or somehow figure out how to put something in /etc/profile that will parse the prefs.js file it is exists and change the home page on logon.
> >
> > I have some other notes about this here...
> > http://szone.berlinwall.org/node/112
> >
> >
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> John
> >>
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> I did it like this:   killall -q firefox-bin &
>    echo 'lockPref("app.update.enabled", false);
>    defaultPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.schoolnet.na/");
>    lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.schoolnet.na/");' >
> /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg
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>
> Philipp
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