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setting firefox startpage
Posted: 26. Aug 2010, 17:58
by 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
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 26. Aug 2010, 18:39
by gapan
Try editing the ~/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile/user.js file and remove the first two lines.
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 31. Aug 2010, 19:34
by 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
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 4. Sep 2010, 05:15
by azurehi
gapan wrote: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.
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 4. Sep 2010, 05:25
by Akuna
azurehi wrote:gapan wrote: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
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 30. Sep 2010, 12:21
by thenktor
Is user.js the only way to set our start page? IMHO it should be changeable by the user in the FF menu.
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 30. Sep 2010, 14:44
by gapan
thenktor wrote:Is user.js the only way to set our start page?
I don't know.
thenktor wrote:IMHO it should be changeable by the user in the FF menu.
Yes.
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 30. Sep 2010, 15:31
by 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.
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 30. Sep 2010, 15:41
by zAchAry
Akuna wrote: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/");
Re: setting firefox startpage
Posted: 30. Sep 2010, 17:13
by thenktor
zAchAry wrote: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
