Bug 981490 – Cannot set system-wide default home page

Bug 981490 - Cannot set system-wide default home page

Summary:	Cannot set system-wide default home page

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	firefox (Show other bugs)
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Version:	19
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

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Assigned To:	Jan Horak
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Reported:	2013-07-04 19:34 EDT by David Woodhouse
Modified:	2013-08-15 15:46 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2013-07-31 10:49:03 EDT
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Description David Woodhouse 2013-07-04 19:34:45 EDT

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?

Comment 1 Jan Horak 2013-07-31 10:49:03 EDT

Thanks for bug report, see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900008
for fix.

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2013-08-01 07:06:50 EDT

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 ...

Comment 3 Jan Horak 2013-08-01 07:14:49 EDT

In case of x86_64 system:
- /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences
In case of i386 system:
- /usr/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences

Comment 4 David Woodhouse 2013-08-01 08:25:23 EDT

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!

Comment 5 Jan Horak 2013-08-05 09:03:36 EDT

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.

Comment 6 David Woodhouse 2013-08-15 15:46:42 EDT

Should I file another bug for that? Here? In mozilla bugzilla?

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