[Bug 1320767] Re: Users unable to change default home page, address http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home keeps coming back

[Otto Kekäläinen]

I now found the cause of this issue:

root at markku-Vostro-270s:/usr# grep -Rs dell_lin *
share/xul-ext/ubufox/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js:user_pref("browser.search.defaulturl", "http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=ytff-dell_lin&p=");
share/xul-ext/ubufox/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js:user_pref("browser.search.param.yahoo-fr", "moz2-ytff-dell_lin");
share/xul-ext/ubufox/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js:user_pref("browser.search.param.yahoo-fr-cjkt", "moz2-ytff-dell_lin");
share/xul-ext/ubufox/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js:user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home");
share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/ubufox at ubuntu.com/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js:user_pref("browser.search.defaulturl", "http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=ytff-dell_lin&p=");
share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/ubufox at ubuntu.com/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js:user_pref("browser.search.param.yahoo-fr", "moz2-ytff-dell_lin");
share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/ubufox at ubuntu.com/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js:user_pref("browser.search.param.yahoo-fr-cjkt", "moz2-ytff-dell_lin");
share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/ubufox at ubuntu.com/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js:user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home");


Apply this to fix the problem:


rm -rf /usr/share/xul-ext/ubufox/defaults/preferences/001yahoo-defaults-dell.js
rm -rf /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/*
rm -rf /home/*/.mozilla

There will also be some collaterall damage, e.g. mozvoikko extension
will be deleted and user Firefox profiles, so this rule fix applies only
for fresh installs.

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