customizing Fedora Core 2

[Pedro Morais]

> Would be nice if there was something like /etc/firstboot.d from which
> scripts get executed on first boot, regardless of whether the graphical
> firstboot is run. I've my own package to do just that, very much for
> reasons like this... (not everything can be done from kickstart %post)

I agree, it would be very useful.

> At least with Mozilla it indeed requires rebuilding, or mucking around
> with the .jar files in /usr/lib/mozilla-* which is nothing short of
> hideous for such a simple (and I think rather common) thing. And it'd
> seem to be the same with Firefox:
> /usr/lib/firefox-0.9.1/defaults/pref/firefox.js has this:
> pref("browser.startup.homepage","chrome://browser-region/locale/region.prop
>erties");

I create a mozilla prefs.js file in /etc/skel/.mozilla/default/<something>.slt
with at least:
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://the.new.homepage");
I have several other options there, but I think that should do it.