Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14
les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Thu Feb 3 22:23:05 UTC 2011
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 08:58 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 09:15 -0800, les wrote:
> > Hi, guys,
> > First it was evolution, and some poor slowdowns with other things, now
> > it is firefox, where I cannot set the home page. I have tried using
> > edit>preferences and typing it in, selecting the page I want and
> > selecting edit>preferences and selecting use current page, and I hav
> > tried dragging the token to the home button. None of these methods
> > work. What on earth do we have to do now to set preferences? Is the
> > history really being erased? Are our systems doing strange stuff? or
> > is it just my system? By the way the problem of not saving the
> > separator position in evolution has come back as well.
> >
> > Are Microsoft engineers "helping" us with our applications now?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Les H
> >
>
> Something is really wrong on your machine. Being a the page you want and
> clicking on Use Current Page under edit->preferences has always worked
> for me. When you do that what becomes the current page?
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>
It would stay at the current page, show the update in about:config, but
when I closed and restarted firefox it would return to the old home
page.
I tried all the commonly known switches in about:config, and in the
preferences dialog, nothing worked until I edited the two .js files.
There are two links in one of the responses that I am going to look at
now.
Regards,
Les H
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