-----Original Message-----
>From: les <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 2, 2011 7:21 PM
>To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14
>
>On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 22:38 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On 02/02/2011 07:46 PM, compdoc wrote:
>> >> Every now and again, the firefox profile gets hosed.
>> >
>> >
>> > Are you saying this is a normal occurrence in Fedora 14, or for Firefox in
>> > general?
>> >
>> > I've never had it happen...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> I've had it happen with Firefox on more than one OS. It's not a big
>> deal to restart -- use the Firefox Sync addon to save your bookmarks,
>> history, passwords, etc. Create a new profile, install the Sync addon,
>> and all your saved stuff comes back.
>>
>> --
>> -- Steve
>
>Using the suggestion to set the home page in about:config did not work.
>It would change it while the browser was open, but close the browser and
>reopen it and the setting would return. I created a new profile, and
>found that the home directory would take, but it wouldn't open it until
>I clicked on the home button. But this was helpful. At least the new
>user did not change the home page on me.
>I opened the .mozilla/firefox/*username directory and did a grep for the
>bad home page. Turned out there were two files that listed it.
>
>The first is prefs.js. It warns that if you edit it with firefox open,
>it will be rewritten. Apparently this is what is killing the setting in
>about:config.
>
>The second one is user.js. It had only one line:
>user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "stickyhomepage");
>Changing stickyhomepage (my substitute for my home page) to the one I
>wanted in both files, and eureka, it works as desired.
>
>Deleted the new, unwanted profile and things are peachy again for now.
>Question, where did the user.js file come from?
>
>Regards,
>Les H
>
>
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Perhaps an untested rogue extension or plug-in.
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