[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

[Jordan Erickson]

It is my stance that most of this should be covered in the 
/etc/firefox-3.0/pref/firefox.js file (if using FF3.x), as this is the 
pref file that all other global options are set (and seem to work fine 
besides this one pref).

- Jordan


furicle wrote:
> 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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