how to set default "home page" for all users in firefox

[Philipp Hanselmann]

Craig Szymanski schrieb:
>  Hi Phillip,
>  ----- "Philipp Hanselmann" <philipp at schoolnet.na> wrote:
>  > Craig Szymanski schrieb:
>  > > ----- "john" <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  ---snip---
>  > >
>  > I did it like this:
>  >    killall -q firefox-bin &
>  >     echo 'lockPref("app.update.enabled", false);
>  >     defaultPref("browser.startup.homepage",
>  > "http://www.schoolnet.na/");
>  >     lockPref("browser.startup.homepage",
>  "http://www.schoolnet.na/");'
>  > >
>  > /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg
>  
>  I believe that when there are package updates to firefox that the
>  /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg file has a good chance of being
>  overwritten?
>  
>   
I haven't tested that, but I found different hits on the Internet on 
that subject. Based on that I decided to do it like this...

Philipp

>  I used to edit: /usr/lib/firefox/greprefs/all.js with proxy
>  information and adjust a few other things and noticed that each time
>  there was an update to firefox my changes were gone.
>  
>  Craig
>  >
>
>
>   


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