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Locking Firefox Homepage? by Caboose on 03-23-2005 at 06:00 AM

Since I installed the MsgPlus! sponsor program, my Firefox homepage keeps changing (I let it do anything it wanted to IE, cause it's not important to me anymore :P). Is there a way to lock the homepage like in IE?


RE: Locking Firefox Homepage? by user27089 on 03-23-2005 at 07:50 AM

No, sorry, the sponsor program changes the search page to default every time you open/close internet explorer, there is no way to stop this changing...

I don't see why the firefox default page is changing :s.


RE: Locking Firefox Homepage? by RaceProUK on 03-23-2005 at 10:02 AM

Something else is changing your Firefox page. In order to lock your homepage, you'd have to set a particular file to read-only, but this would prevent you changing any Firefox preferences.


RE: Locking Firefox Homepage? by -dt- on 03-23-2005 at 10:26 AM

hmm well you could try editing the pref in user.js , http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit go there to find out how to make it then insert this into your user.js

code:

/*sets the throbber url */
user_pref("browser.throbber.url","http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/");

/*sets homepage url */
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage","http://start.mozilla.org/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official");



RE: Locking Firefox Homepage? by Sypher on 03-23-2005 at 10:42 AM

With SpyBOT you can lock it aswell (or was it only Internet Explorer? :\)


RE: RE: Locking Firefox Homepage? by Caboose on 03-23-2005 at 03:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by -dt-
hmm well you could try editing the pref in user.js , http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit go there to find out how to make it then insert this into your user.js

code:

/*sets the throbber url */
user_pref("browser.throbber.url","http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/");

/*sets homepage url */
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage","http://start.mozilla.org/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official");



That worked, thanks :D