On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 20:42 +0000, g wrote: > On 02/08/2011 10:39 AM, les wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 23:25 +0000, g wrote: > <> > > >> did your your 'user.js' get picked up by 'prefs.js'? > > > > Yes, apparently it did. Not just that, but it appeared to reset the > > selection in prefs.js. > > reset in 'prefs.js' or reset in 'user.js'? > > > excuse my laziness, i am going to ask and not read back thru your post > to see if you stated such. > > from "menu bar", select "edit > preferences > general". > > with these settings; > > When Firefox starts [ Show my home page ] > > Home Page [ http://www.google.com/index.html ] > > if this is what you do and it does not hold, try putting this into your > 'user.js'; > > user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.google.com/index.html";); > user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.9.2.13"); > > then make 'user.js' read only, ie; > > chmod 440 user.js > > > if that does not work, open 'prefs.js' and search for 'homepage'. if it > is different, change to above. > > if there is no 'homepage', insert above, in alphabetical order of what > is listed under "user_pref("browser." > > > *if* that fails, last resort would be to create a local 'homepage' and > put it in a 'redirect' to change to google. > > hth. > You understand it correctly. Once I changed user.js to the page I wanted, everything was happy. Maybe I'm a bit dense, but why would one want two means to set a preference, when the hidden one overrides the normal one? Regards, Les H -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
