Bug 981490
| Summary: | Cannot set system-wide default home page | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Woodhouse <dwmw2> |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Jan Horak <jhorak> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-07-31 14:49:03 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Thanks for bug report, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900008 for fix. That works; thanks. Now... in Fedora, where do I *put* it?
I was lazy to start with. *Please* tell me I don't really have to do it this way...
for DIR in /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences \
/usr/lib64/firefox/defaults/preferences \
/usr/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences \
/usr/lib/firefox/defaults/preferences ; do
if [ -d $DIR ]; then
if cat > $DIR/all-example.js <<EOF
pref("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "example.com");
pref("network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris", "example.com");
pref("network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris", "example.com");
pref("browser.startup.homepage", "data:text/plain,browser.startup.homepage=http://circuit.example.com/");
EOF ...
In case of x86_64 system: - /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences In case of i386 system: - /usr/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences We already moved that once, didn't we? From F18 to F19 or something? I wasn't *completely* on crack when I came up with the other two paths in comment 2? Please could we move it *again*, to somewhere non-arch-specific? It's OK to have an arch-specific directory *too*, of course. But we should be able to put a file in /usr/share or /etc instead of %_libdir. Please don't make me build an arch-specific package for a text file which is identical! You're right. Actually mozilla moved firefox/defaults/preferences to firefox/browser/defaults/preferences in some recent Firefox. Avoiding multilib settings actually makes sense to me. We could put system settings to /etc/... and make documentation of this somewhere. Since this isn't related to default homepage we could probably make another bug. Should I file another bug for that? Here? In mozilla bugzilla? |
To configure firefox automatically for all users, I provide a file /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/all-example.js with the following contents: pref("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "example.com"); pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://intranet.example.com/"); pref("network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris", "example.com"); The authentication bit works fine, but browser.start.homepage doesn't. It makes the browser start up *without* loading a home page. And if I hit the 'home' button it still takes me to the Fedora start page. Am I doing it wrong?