setting firefox startpage

[anttel]

Hi,
Since I installed Salix 13.1.1 the startpage in firefox is:
http://www.salixos.org/start/en/
I would like to change that into my iGoogle homepage but when I change that it resets to the salixos page. Is there a way to change the firefox startpage?
best regards
anttel

[gapan]

Try editing the ~/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile/user.js file and remove the first two lines.

[anttel]

Hello Gapan,
Thank's for the suggestion. It works fine. I've got my old iGoogle startpage back! I'm really pleased with Salix OS. It does everything I need.
Regards,
anttel

[azurehi]

Try editing the ~/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile/user.js file and remove the first two lines.

Firefox always opens to a blank page. Exactly How to I edit the file you mention? How/where do I find it? Thanks.

[Akuna]

Try editing the ~/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile/user.js file and remove the first two lines.

Firefox always opens to a blank page. Exactly How to I edit the file you mention? How/where do I find it? Thanks.

In a terminal try:

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geany /path_to_your_personal_home_directory/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/user.js

Another way would be to fire Thunar & in the menu display, tick the "show hidden files" box. You should then be able to see the .mozilla sub-directory in your personal home directory & follow the rest of gapan's instructions by double clicking on the user.js file

[thenktor]

Is user.js the only way to set our start page? IMHO it should be changeable by the user in the FF menu.

[gapan]

Is user.js the only way to set our start page?

I don't know.

IMHO it should be changeable by the user in the FF menu.

Yes.

[rhadamanthys]

Hi,

Important: Once an entry for a preference setting exists in the user.js file, any change you make to that setting in the options and preference dialogs or via about:config will be lost when you restart your Mozilla application because the user.js entry will override it.

You should add the two lines for the startup.homepage to
/usr/lib/firefox-3.x.y/defaults/profile/prefs.js instead.

[zAchAry]

Another way would be to fire Thunar & in the menu display, tick the "show hidden files" box. You should then be able to see the .mozilla sub-directory in your personal home directory & follow the rest of gapan's instructions by double clicking on the user.js file

You can also: Enter in the address-bar about:support and click on the Open Containing Folder button.

BTW, where is this user.js file that all of you are talking about?
I'm importing my Firefox3 profile folder manually from one OS to the other, since Windows Vista > Ubuntu > Salix OS.

From my prefs.js file (line 77)

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user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "https://startpage.com/");

[thenktor]

BTW, where is this user.js file that all of you are talking about?

It doesn't exist by default. We've added it to set a default start page, but apparantly it was the wrong place