Firefox caching to NFS mounted home directories killing disk IO on file server

[Emmanuel Le Normand]

Hello,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:53:14 -0500
Donaldson Jeffrey <jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us> wrote:

> Manu,
> 
> Thank you for the reply. I extracted the omni.jar with jar -x -f 
> omni.jar in the /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1 directory. This created the 
> grepref.js file. I edited that file to comment out the config.obscure 
> value with // and then added at the end of the file the 
> pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg"); then wrote the
> changes. Next, I ran jar -f omni.jar -u grepref.js. Finally, I
> deleted the .mozilla file from a student's home directory and
> launched firefox against their account. Firefox came up okay
> (although no homepage) but I checked about:cache and about:config and
> it still isn't pulling the locked prefs from the firefox.cfg file
> in /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/. Not sure what else to try. Any help is
> appreciated.
> 

Maybe, you have a problem with the firefox.cfg ?
I use the lockPref in Firefox since long time and without problem.
Look this screenshots (verrouillé (French) => Locked ):
http://webu2.upmf-grenoble.fr/manu/about-config.png
http://webu2.upmf-grenoble.fr/manu/lock-cfg.png

I lock the proxy's setting and homepage.

Bye
Manu




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