Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14

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On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 20:42 +0000, g wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 10:39 AM, les wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 23:25 +0000, g wrote:
> <>
> 
> >> did your your 'user.js' get picked up by 'prefs.js'?
> > 
> > Yes, apparently it did.  Not just that, but it appeared to reset the
> > selection in prefs.js.
> 
> reset in 'prefs.js' or reset in 'user.js'?
> 
> 
> excuse my laziness, i am going to ask and not read back thru your post
> to see if you stated such.
> 
> from "menu bar", select "edit > preferences > general".
> 
> with these settings;
> 
>    When Firefox starts  [ Show my home page ]
> 
>    Home Page   [ http://www.google.com/index.html ]
> 
> if this is what you do and it does not hold, try putting this into your
> 'user.js';
> 
> user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.google.com/index.html";);
> user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.9.2.13");
> 
> then make 'user.js' read only, ie;
> 
>    chmod 440 user.js
> 
> 
> if that does not work, open 'prefs.js' and search for 'homepage'. if it
> is different, change to above.
> 
> if there is no 'homepage', insert above, in alphabetical order of what
> is listed under "user_pref("browser."
> 
> 
> *if* that fails, last resort would be to create a local 'homepage' and
> put it in a 'redirect' to change to google.
> 
> hth.
> 

You understand it correctly.  Once I changed user.js to the page I
wanted, everything was happy.  Maybe I'm a bit dense, but why would one
want two means to set a preference, when the hidden one overrides the
normal one?

Regards,
Les H

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