On 12/30/2011 10:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: <> > Let us be clear. You want me to cd to .mozilla/firefox/o8u6238s.default. > o8u6238s.default is the name of my default file. -=- o8u6238s.default is your _profile_ directory. > Then run: grep bing * > bing.out > > That returns a file with 4 lines , 28 words and 110008 characters. The > file is completely unreadable (mostly gobbely gook) -=- at start of each line that relates to a file you will see; nameoffile: ie, name of file, followed by a colon, ":". what follows is the line that contains 'bing'. if you see "mostly gobbely gook" (ms os term), then file is either a 'hex' file or it is a 'data' file. you can use command; file filename to find type of file. see 'man file' for discription. what is name of file/s that that contain 'bing'? > Well you can find bing appearing in the file but not a line which you > can easily deal with. -=- because it is not a standard text file. > I could grep each file in the directory but that is a lot of work for a > minor annoyance But maybe I will do it some day. grep bing * greps all files. see 'man grep'. > But in principle I am sure this method would trace down the problem. -=- it can. as you posted; }> There is no browser.startup.homepage in about:config and Joe Zeff replied, yo need to create it. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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