Firefox 9 can't set home page <SOLVED>

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 18:59 +0000, g wrote: 
> On 12/31/2011 03:28 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> <>
> 
> > and all was well. You notice there is no reference to bing in that web
> > address that gave me bing. So there is some mystery left.
> -=-
> 
> well kafba. my bad. :(
> 
> instead of giving you full 'preference name' for startup page, i should
> have told you to filter 'homepage'. you would have found problem sooner.
> 
> "live and learn. die and forget." :)
> 
> anyway, congrats on noting url bar and finding problem.
> 
> 
> "HomepageBeforeUnload" is not a legitimate firefox 'preference name'.
> 
> see;
> 
>   http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
> 
> 
> as Patrick Lists suggest, looking for those files and deleting them
> should solve problem. they are probably what allows their
> 'preference name' to work.
> 
> you should run "grep 'filenames' *" on those file names to see where
> they are in regular firefox configs and remove lines with them.
> 
> in addition, i will also advise that you run "grep search.conduit.com *"
> in your profile directory to see if you might have any more files with
> that link.
> 
> plus, note timestamp for file and run "find" to see if you any more
> files installed at same time. if 'conduit.com' is sneaky enough to
> do what they did, they may be sneaky enough to hide files elsewhere.
> 
> 

Well my Fedora 9 is the one supplied by Fedora 16. So who am I going to
tell they have an illegitimate firefox preference name?
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