It seems that Dell themselves modify the firefox data directory, and as such, the bug may need to be reported to them; It is most likely beyond the scope of the developers here.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320767 Title: Users unable to change default home page, address http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home keeps coming back Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have recommended pre-installed Dell laptops to many new Ubuntu users. One of them started to complain a few weeks ago that the start page of Firefox is http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home and it is impossible to change. Indeed, when I tested to change default search engine or URL of the home page the UI of Firefox allows me to do it, but once Firefox is restarted all those settings are lost and Yahoo comes back as the default search engine and home page URL is set to http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home. This is really bad, because the Finnish users in question really have no interest in US-centric nonsense entertainment news from Yahoo and none of the content is in Finnish. I've deactivated the http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ respository and de-installed the Dell packages that look safe to remove, and I did delete ~/.mozilla/firefox to make sure it is really a system wide problem that presists. I haven't found out what package injects these behaviour in Firefox. What are the options, what can be done? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1320767/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
