Another Fedora "being too clever" annoyance! When I start Firefox it insists on going to the page:- file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html The 'Home Page' in Firefox preferences doesn't override this, I have it set to about:blank. What were they thinking of to hard code this somewhere in the startup scripts! Anyway, does anyone know how to turn it off? -- Chris Green
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:38:00AM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
Another Fedora "being too clever" annoyance!
When I start Firefox it insists on going to the page:-
file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
The 'Home Page' in Firefox preferences doesn't override this, I have it set to about:blank. What were they thinking of to hard code this somewhere in the startup scripts!
Anyway, does anyone know how to turn it off?
Umm, isnt this happening because the link you are clicking isnt actually a link to firefox but a link to the url file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html, which opens in your default browser, which is firefox. To test, close all instances of firefox then press ALT+F2 to get a "run" dialog and type the program name (I don't know if its firefox or mozilla-firefox on Fedora, sorry) then click ok. Does Firefox open with your home page? Also does the Firefox icon in the Applications menu also exhibit the same behaviour? Is it only the icon in the panel that does this. You can check the icon in the panel by right clicking and looking at the properties. Does it have that file:///... url in it? Cheers, Al.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:52:35AM +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:38:00AM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
Another Fedora "being too clever" annoyance!
When I start Firefox it insists on going to the page:-
file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
The 'Home Page' in Firefox preferences doesn't override this, I have it set to about:blank. What were they thinking of to hard code this somewhere in the startup scripts!
Anyway, does anyone know how to turn it off?
Umm, isnt this happening because the link you are clicking isnt actually a link to firefox but a link to the url file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html, which opens in your default browser, which is firefox.
No, I'm running it by using a menu option I have created myself in fvwm2 which just does "exec firefox".
To test, close all instances of firefox then press ALT+F2 to get a "run" dialog and type the program name (I don't know if its firefox or mozilla-firefox on Fedora, sorry) then click ok. Does Firefox open with your home page?
A "run" dialog, yeeuccchhhhh! :-)
Also does the Firefox icon in the Applications menu also exhibit the same behaviour? Is it only the icon in the panel that does this. You can check the icon in the panel by right clicking and looking at the properties. Does it have that file:///... url in it?
All irrelevant, I'm not running firefox from a Gnome (or any other) icon. However there is something like this going on. When I run Firefox from a terminal window it doesn't access file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html but when I run it at startup from my .fvwm2rc file it *does* try and load file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html. Very strange, I'll investigate further. -- Chris Green
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 08:38 +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
Another Fedora "being too clever" annoyance!
When I start Firefox it insists on going to the page:-
file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
The 'Home Page' in Firefox preferences doesn't override this, I have it set to about:blank.
The only time I have seen firefox ignore the homepage on startup is if the a url is supplied after the firefox command in what ever menu you are launching firefox from. Do you get the same behaviour if you launch firefox from a terminal ? (remembering to close of any existing instances of firefox first otherwise the existing instance will just spawn another thread) If so is the 'firefox' in your path a script and not a link to the firefox binary itself ? (use file to find out) I wonder if they have tried to do something cute to display some welcome page on the first run which is failing to reset itself.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:06:01AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 08:38 +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
Another Fedora "being too clever" annoyance!
When I start Firefox it insists on going to the page:-
file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
The 'Home Page' in Firefox preferences doesn't override this, I have it set to about:blank.
The only time I have seen firefox ignore the homepage on startup is if the a url is supplied after the firefox command in what ever menu you are launching firefox from.
Do you get the same behaviour if you launch firefox from a terminal ? (remembering to close of any existing instances of firefox first otherwise the existing instance will just spawn another thread) If so is the 'firefox' in your path a script and not a link to the firefox binary itself ? (use file to find out)
I finally found the problem, firefox was never getting completely shut down! Even though I had logged out and changed from the Gnome display manager and window manager to using fvwm2 whenever I ran firefox I was restarting the one that gnome had started! I discovered this because the problem magically went away when I explicitly closed firefox down because I wanted to run one (on the local display) from one of our Solaris systems. Since then I have no longer seen the file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html.
I wonder if they have tried to do something cute to display some welcome page on the first run which is failing to reset itself.
Nothing 'cute' but as far as I'm concerned making the Firefox icon load file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html seems a bit OTT, how many more 'ordinary' users are going to know how to disable this behaviour and ar going to wonder (like me) why setting the home page in Firefox apparently does nothing. -- Chris Green
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