On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 18:59 +0000, g wrote: > On 12/31/2011 03:28 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > <> > > > and all was well. You notice there is no reference to bing in that web > > address that gave me bing. So there is some mystery left. > -=- > > well kafba. my bad. :( > > instead of giving you full 'preference name' for startup page, i should > have told you to filter 'homepage'. you would have found problem sooner. > > "live and learn. die and forget." :) > > anyway, congrats on noting url bar and finding problem. > > > "HomepageBeforeUnload" is not a legitimate firefox 'preference name'. > > see; > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries > > > as Patrick Lists suggest, looking for those files and deleting them > should solve problem. they are probably what allows their > 'preference name' to work. > > you should run "grep 'filenames' *" on those file names to see where > they are in regular firefox configs and remove lines with them. > > in addition, i will also advise that you run "grep search.conduit.com *" > in your profile directory to see if you might have any more files with > that link. > > plus, note timestamp for file and run "find" to see if you any more > files installed at same time. if 'conduit.com' is sneaky enough to > do what they did, they may be sneaky enough to hide files elsewhere. > > Well my Fedora 9 is the one supplied by Fedora 16. So who am I going to tell they have an illegitimate firefox preference name? -- ======================================================================= Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. ======================================================================= 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
