RE: firefox startpage

The SESSION solution won't work with a blackbox initiated firefox. But 
there must be a simple file to edit somewhere in the firefox directory...

Mike

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Miles Roper wrote:

> 
> will be killed :o)  does changing the firefox options work, as it put in
> there the url to the website.
> 
> ie
> 
> something like
> 
> SESSION_0_FIREFOX_OPTIONS "blar blar"
> check the synatx of above, only done it from memory.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor B [mailto:trevor-BjDgExXnU3gXC2x5gXVKYQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:42 p.m.
> To: Leroy !
> Cc: thinstation-developer-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Thinstation-developer] firefox startpage
> 
> 
> The absolute 'quick and dirty' is to change the command to "firefox 
> <your url>".
> 
> Or, you could change the defaults (browser.startup.homepage & others), 
> which you will find in the region.properties file which can be found in 
> the /locale/US/browser-region/ directory in the US.jar file which can be 
> found in the firefox/lib/mozilla-1.6/chrome directory or your packages.
> 
> The second method does work. It's how I set my starting page...... Not 
> sure how to apply this as a persistent patch though (ie. survive 
> upgrades to the package - Miles???).
> 
> Trevor B
> 
> Leroy ! wrote:
> 
> > I am using firefox with Thinstation. And I would like to change the 
> > start page of firefox. Someone knows how to do that? I found something 
> > in the all.js file:
> >
> > // 
> >
> pref("startup.homepage_override_url","chrome://browser-region/locale/region.
> properties"); 
> >
> > pref("browser.chromeURL","chrome://browser/content/");
> > pref("browser.hiddenWindowChromeURL", 
> > "chrome://browser/content/hiddenWindow.xul");
> > pref("xpinstall.dialog.confirm", 
> > "chrome://mozapps/content/xpinstall/xpinstallConfirm.xul");
> > pref("xpinstall.dialog.progress", 
> > "chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.xul");
> > pref("xpinstall.dialog.progress.type", "Download:Manager");
> >
> > pref("keyword.enabled", true);
> > pref("keyword.URL", 
> >
> "http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=";
> ); 
> >
> >
> > pref("general.useragent.locale", 
> > "chrome://global/locale/intl.properties");
> > pref("general.useragent.contentlocale", 
> > "chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties");
> > pref("general.useragent.vendor", "Firefox");
> > pref("general.useragent.vendorSub", "0.8");
> >
> > pref("general.smoothScroll", false);
> > pref("general.autoScroll", true);
> >
> > pref("backups.number_of_prefs_copies", 1);
> >
> > // 0 = blank, 1 = home (browser.startup.homepage), 2 = last
> > // XXXBlake Remove this stupid pref
> > pref("browser.startup.page", 1);
> > pref("browser.startup.homepage", 
> > "chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties");
> > // "browser.startup.homepage_override" was for 4.x
> > pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.1", false);
> >
> > can someone tell me how to change the start page in?.www.google.com?? 
> > fore example.
> >
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