On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 22:47 +0000, g wrote: > 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. > See the solution I posted. browser.startup.homepage is not the variable that was causing trouble. Adding it would probably not work. -- ======================================================================= management, n.: The art of getting other people to do all the work. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
