Lock homepage in firefox for normal users?[Scanned]

[Jacques B.]

> I took a guess that the mozilla.cfg file would go the same place that
> all.js went.  So I did a locate for that file and confirmed with the
> path above (as well as similar paths for other mozilla installs).
> Well, I lie, all.js is in the greprefs subdir of the path above.
>
> I created a mozilla.txt as outlined on the site you mentioned and then
> used the tool found here[1] to byteshift it and create mozilla.cfg.
>
> And I added the following line to all.js:
>
> pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");
>
> When I started firefox as a new user I got an error about the
> configuration, which was due to the wrong path to mozilla.cfg.  I had
> to move it out of greprefs and up a level.  After that, firefox
> started properly and used the URL I specified as the home page.
>
> Then I went to Edit->Preferences and the home page text box was grayed
> out and unable to be modified.  So the process seemed to work as
> advertised.
>
> [1] http://www.alain.knaff.lu/%7Eaknaff/howto/MozillaCustomization/moz-byteshift.pl
>
> - --
> Todd

Thanks Todd.  I had started to run a find but cancelled it as I was in
a rush when I tested this so went with the folder identified by
which firefox


Thanks,

Jacques