Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 22:47 +0000, g wrote: 
> On 12/30/2011 10:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> <>
> 
> > Let us be clear. You want me to cd to .mozilla/firefox/o8u6238s.default.
> > o8u6238s.default is the name of my default file.
> -=-
> 
> 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)
> -=-
> 
> 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.
> -=-
> 
> 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.
> -=-
> 
> it can.
> 
> as you posted;
> 
> }> There is no browser.startup.homepage in about:config
> 
> and Joe Zeff replied, yo need to create it.
> 

See the solution I posted. browser.startup.homepage is not the variable
that was causing trouble. Adding it would probably not work.
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