Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?

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On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 18:57 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
> F9, firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.i386
> 
> When I start firefox, it opens this page:
> http://start.fedoraproject.org/
> 
> The preferences say "When Firefox starts, show my homepage", so one 
> might reasonably infer that start.fedoraproject.org is the default home 
> page for Fedora-packaged firefox.
> 
> However, if I click the "home" button on the toolbar, or use Alt+Home, I 
> get the Google Firefox home page:
> http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
> 
> Even explicitly setting my home page back to start.fedoraproject.org 
> does not change the behavior of the home button.
> 
> I could swear that the home button used to simply take me to the Fedora 
> start page, but not now.
> 
> I know it's stupid thing; I don't much care which page is used, but I'd 
> very much like to know what's going on. Maybe something to do with FF3 
> entering release-candidate phase?

On my system (firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.x86_64) the Home button takes
me to my home page.

OT: I'd actually like to get rid of the Home button as it just takes up
space, but in contrast to the other bookmarks in the toolbar it doesn't
have a Delete option in the right-click menu.

poc

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