On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 22:38 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 07:46 PM, compdoc wrote:
> >> Every now and again, the firefox profile gets hosed.
> >
> >
> > Are you saying this is a normal occurrence in Fedora 14, or for Firefox in
> > general?
> >
> > I've never had it happen...
> >
> >
> >
> I've had it happen with Firefox on more than one OS. It's not a big
> deal to restart -- use the Firefox Sync addon to save your bookmarks,
> history, passwords, etc. Create a new profile, install the Sync addon,
> and all your saved stuff comes back.
>
> --
> -- Steve
Using the suggestion to set the home page in about:config did not work.
It would change it while the browser was open, but close the browser and
reopen it and the setting would return. I created a new profile, and
found that the home directory would take, but it wouldn't open it until
I clicked on the home button. But this was helpful. At least the new
user did not change the home page on me.
I opened the .mozilla/firefox/*username directory and did a grep for the
bad home page. Turned out there were two files that listed it.
The first is prefs.js. It warns that if you edit it with firefox open,
it will be rewritten. Apparently this is what is killing the setting in
about:config.
The second one is user.js. It had only one line:
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "stickyhomepage");
Changing stickyhomepage (my substitute for my home page) to the one I
wanted in both files, and eureka, it works as desired.
Deleted the new, unwanted profile and things are peachy again for now.
Question, where did the user.js file come from?
Regards,
Les H
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