[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

[furicle]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Philippe Seewer <philippe.seewer at bfh.ch> wrote:
> There is a workaround:
> By following http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences create a .cfg
> file and put in
> <pre>
> //
> pref("browser.startup.homepage", "XXX");
> </pre>
>
> Where XXX ist your default startup homepage.
>
>
> Please not that with 8.04, replace local-settings.js with /etc/xulrunner-1.9/system-grepref.js and the .cfg file should go to /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3 or whatever the current firefox update status is.


Have you actually tried this?  I can't seem to get it to work.
Perhaps I don't completely understand you.

If I specify an additional config file location in
/etc/xulrunner-1.9/system-grepref.js as you suggest, it doesn't appear
to do anything, and doesn't show up in about:config

I tried the lockPref( both ROT13'd and straight up, as well as just
pref(.  Is ROT13 still required?

If I use /usr/lib/firefox-xxx won't that get overridden after each
update?  There were two this month....

Any further clarity here is *really appreciated*

<rant>
Are all the various configuration files laid out anywhere?  There's
/etc/firefox, /etc/firefox-3xx, /usr/lib/firefox,
/usr/lib/firefox-3xx, /etc/xulrunner-1.9, /usr/lib/xulrunner,
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/, /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.xxx (multiple copies)
each and every one of those with multiple sub directories.  To boot,
sometimes the series specific folders are linked to the generic ones
and sometimes they aren't.  Sometimes they refer to each other and
sometimes they don't.

Did I mention there are six entries in about:config that have the word
startup in them?

How did we end up with such a pile of spaghetti?  It's no wonder it's broken!
</rant>

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systemwide default startup homepage ignored
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