Install fairfax. Create test user not used before. Start X. Start Mozilla. (You end up on the Mozilla home page.) Open edit->prefs->navigator. It has a "when navigator starts up" option. It is on "home page". It has a "home page" option. It is on file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html. Close mozilla. Re-start it. It opens on the /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html. This is definitely a better place for users who may not have a net connection up at first: but why is it heading out onto the net the first time?
This is actually a feature. :) Even more ironic, it's a feature that is actually broken in 0.9.2 so it will go to the url that is specified in the home page right now. So this isn't a problem with the 0.9.2 release rpms. I tested it out by renaming my .mozilla directory and allowing it to create a new profile and it still went to correct location on the local filesystem. I suspect that you're using 0.9.1? Here's the checkin "fixing" this feature on the 0.9.2 branch checked in after the 0.9.2 release was cut. http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla/xpfe/bootstrap&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=nsAppRunner.cpp&rev1=1.284.2.1&rev2=1.284.2.2&root=/cvsroot ( For future releases, though, I will have to set 'browser.startup.homepage_override.1' to false in /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref/all.js. )