Re: Lock homepage in firefox for normal users?[Scanned]

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Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> Corporate desktops invariably have, as their home page, a portal to
> their intra-net and local mail. If users, potentially more than one per
> machine, futz around with the home page setting, they can easily get
> lost and forget the various URLs. I would assume that the sysadmin,
> wishing to save time on unnecessary support calls, would want to lock
> down the home page for that purpose.

To the best of my knowledge, Firefox settings are saved on a per-user
basis anyway, under $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/$RANDOM_STUFF/ (where
$RANDOM_STUFF is a random string). The homepage is stored in the
prefs.js file as
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "about:blank");
for a blank page.

If this file is set as immutable (chattr +i prefs.js), then the user
won't be able to modify it or delete it. It might be worth making the
.mozilla and firefox directories immutable, too.

Hope this helps,

James.

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