Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page

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On 12/30/2011 10:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
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> Let us be clear. You want me to cd to .mozilla/firefox/o8u6238s.default.
> o8u6238s.default is the name of my default file.
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o8u6238s.default is your _profile_ directory.


> Then run: grep bing * > bing.out
> 
> That returns a file with 4 lines , 28 words and 110008 characters. The
> file is completely unreadable (mostly gobbely gook)
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at start of each line that relates to a file you will see;

  nameoffile:

ie, name of file, followed by a colon, ":". what follows is the line
that contains 'bing'.

if you see "mostly gobbely gook" (ms os term), then file is either a
'hex' file or it is a 'data' file.

you can use command;

  file filename

to find type of file. see 'man file' for discription.


what is name of file/s that that contain 'bing'?

> Well you can find bing appearing in the file but not a line which you
> can easily deal with.
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because it is not a standard text file.


> I could grep each file in the directory but that is a lot of work for a
> minor annoyance But maybe I will do it some day.

  grep bing *

greps all files. see 'man grep'.


> But in principle I am sure this method would trace down the problem.
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it can.

as you posted;

}> There is no browser.startup.homepage in about:config

and Joe Zeff replied, yo need to create it.

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