firefox mandatory preferences (7.10)

[Martin Marcher]

Hello,

after reading thru the help at the mozilla site i found that the
general procedure for mandatory preferences with firefox is:

about:config
general.config.filename
general.config.obscure_value

which is firefox.cfg and 13 on my ubuntu 7.10. OK so I find
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg on my system. But thats data!

file /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg* #firefox.cfg.dist is the original
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg:      ASCII C++ program text
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg.dist: data

I created a file that has the ROT13 encoded value of

<----------------------->
//
lockPref("network.proxy.type", 4);
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://foobar.com");
//EOF
<----------------------->


But when I go to my Preferences, Advanced, Network in Firefox I can
still choose which way I connect to the net (It should be "Auto detect
proxy settings for this network"). Also the homepage ist still the
same homepage I had originally in my profile.

Deleting the whole profile doesn't help. It just seems to ignore the
lockPref settings.

Anyone knows what's wrong here?

thanks
martin

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