Firefox 9 can't set home page <SOLVED>

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On 12/31/2011 09:01 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
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> 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?

i will presume you meant firefox 9 and not fedora 9.

that is something to take up with mozilla developers. i do not believe
that either fedora or mozilla put the 'search.conduit.com' crap in your
firefox.

i would guess that it is from you having picked it up somewhere when you
where at a site that runs searches thru 'search.conduit.com'.

i am making a swag here, but i will say that you need to go thru your
preferences for these settings;

  edit > preferences > security

   [X] Warn me when sites try to install add-ons


  edit > preferences > advanced > network

   [X] Tell me when a website asks to store data for offline use.

because of possible differences between my release and yours, look thru
*all* your settings to insure that there are not any more that allow
changes being made.


On 12/31/2011 09:40 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 18:59 +0000, g wrote: 
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>> "HomepageBeforeUnload" is not a legitimate firefox 'preference name'.
>>
>> see;
>>
>>   http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
>>
> The web page above is interesting but it seems to refer to Firefox up to
> Version 3, though I can't find a date on the document.
-=-

at very bottom of page, you will find;

  This page was last modified 00:51, 25 October 2011. This page has been \
   accessed 5,216,741 times. About MozillaZine Knowledge Base -
    Disclaimers
  MozillaZine and the MozillaZine Logo Copyright © 1998-2007 MozillaZine. \
   All Rights Reserved - Privacy Policy

so i will presume that it covers thru firefox 8.x and firefox 9. please
do not ask why the copyright notice does not say 2011. ;)

> It does have various of browser.startup.homepage but the Fedora 166
> firefox does not. At least mine does not. Does yours?
-=-

my fedora is at f14. at this time i am running sl 5.5 where firefox is;

   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108
   Red Hat/3.6-3.el5_7 Firefox/3.6.24

which does have 'browser.startup.homepage'.

with it missing from you 9.x release, i would presume that firefox devs
where too busy chasing their tales to get release version ahead of google
chrome. 8-D


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