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.htmlThe '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.