I need a new linux homepage. Ideas ?

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sat Nov 13 18:08:13 UTC 2010


On 13/11/10 11:54, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:50:29 -0500
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>>      I assume this is the page that appears when the browser [Firefox]
>>      starts? How can I implement this using my NFS server?
> Create a html page named anything you like, on the server (or on your local
> computer) with your bookmarks as links.
>
> On Firefox:
> Edit-preferences-general
> When Firefox starts show my homepage
> homepage:  the webpage you just made
>
> Done.  Now you can use all of your bookmarks with any web browser.  If you
> put that page on a webserver you can access it from anywhere.
>
> The only disadvantage is that you have to manually type in any new bookmarks
> that you want to add.
>
> I deal with this by using a system where I have my permanent bookmarks on a
> webpage (named bookmarks.html, amazingly enough) and I store transient
> bookmarks for projects, current research and the like using the native Firefox
> bookmarking system.

    Very interesting. I created a blank "home page" in Firefox, copied
    it to file:///mnt/srvr1/index.html and made that the opening page.
    That worked on this F-13 box and was accessible on the F-14  too.
    Then I thought I'd try Opera on the F-14 computer but anything I did
    caused Opera to choke on that address, it kept inserting "localhost"
    and I had to keep killing it.

    So I installed Dillo and did "dillo file:///mnt/srvr1/index.html"
    and it pops right up and as you say I can access my Firefox
    bookmarks from Dillo on the other computer.

    Now I have to decide what I want to do with it ...

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

    Bob



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