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>From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov 
>[mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On 
>Behalf Of Mark Stodola
>Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:30 PM
>To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
>Subject: Firefox 10 system wide preferences
>
>I've never attempted to set system wide/global preferences for 
>Firefox, 
>but am now looking into how to do it.  Google has not been 
>very kind in 
>shedding light on the subject as all of the solutions site different 
>file locations and names.
>
>I'm just looking to set the default homepage for now.  Is anyone 
>successfully doing this?  Has it changed from Firefox 3.0, 
>3.6, and the 
>current packaged 10?
>
>A working example and file path would be much appreciated.

Hi Mark:

I believe you should be able to update the global prefs.js in something like

/usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/defaults/profile/prefs.js

Eg something like

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://google.com";)

Anything in firefox "about:config" should be able to be set like that globally.

>
>Cheers,
>Mark
>-- 
>Mr. Mark V. Stodola
>Digital Systems Engineer
>
>National Electrostatics Corp.
>P.O. Box 620310
>Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA
>Phone: (608) 831-7600
>Fax: (608) 831-9591
>


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