Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 16:33 -0600, Kevin Martin wrote: 
> 
> On 12/30/2011 04:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 17:26 +0000, g wrote: 
> >> On 12/30/2011 04:38 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> <>
> >>
> >>> No bing search plugin is present.
> >> if you follow what Patrick suggested and find that problem is in your
> >> profile, you can use new profile and rebuild or...
> >>
> >> ok. now the 'long part'.
> >>
> >> with firefox closed, open a file browser, move to your firefox profile
> >> directory;
> >>
> >>   /home/aaron/.mozilla/firefox/????????.default/
> >>
> >> open a terminal, enter;
> >>
> >>   grep bing * > 00-bing.0001
> >>
> >> if file size great than 0, open '00-bing.0001' to see what files have
> >> 'bing' in them.
> >>
> >> make a backup copy of files. open the files and insert '#' or required
> >> comment mark at start of line/s that read 'bing'.
> >>
> >> also, if you find 'bing' and it shows a directory path, rename 'bing'
> >> directory.
> >>
> >>
> >> next open directory 'extensions', look for a directory with 'bing' in
> >> name. if none, open each sub directory and view files, looking for
> >> reference to 'bing'. or, open terminal and;
> >>
> >>   grep bing *
> >>
> >> no need to redirect to a file, unless you want. if any file does have
> >> 'bing', move to top of path, in 'extensions' directory and append an
> >> extension to that directory to block it being used.
> >>
> >>
> >> i know this is a lot to go thru, but you can imagine what i have gone
> >> thru to find these little 'tricks' to find problems.
> >>
> >>
> > Let us be clear. You want me to cd to .mozilla/firefox/o8u6238s.default
> 
> 
> >  is the name of my default file.
> > 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)
> > Well you can find bing appearing in the file but not a line which you
> > can easily deal with. 
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > But in principle I am sure this method would trace down the problem.
> if that was "grep -l bing *" then you would get a list of the files that have the word bing in them and you *might* be able to work
> with that (like delete unnecessary files or edit them if there are ascii).  However, wouldn't it just be easier to stop firefox,
> move the directory o8u6238s.default out of the way, and then restart firefox with a new profile?  That should take care of the bing
> issue once and for all.
> 
> Kevin

It is easier but I loose my bookmarks, addons, etc. See solution I
posted.
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