F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
F9, firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.i386 When I start firefox, it opens this page: http://start.fedoraproject.org/ The preferences say "When Firefox starts, show my homepage", so one might reasonably infer that start.fedoraproject.org is the default home page for Fedora-packaged firefox. However, if I click the "home" button on the toolbar, or use Alt+Home, I get the Google Firefox home page: http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Even explicitly setting my home page back to start.fedoraproject.org does not change the behavior of the home button. I could swear that the home button used to simply take me to the Fedora start page, but not now. I know it's stupid thing; I don't much care which page is used, but I'd very much like to know what's going on. Maybe something to do with FF3 entering release-candidate phase? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 18:57 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > F9, firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.i386 > > When I start firefox, it opens this page: > http://start.fedoraproject.org/ > > The preferences say "When Firefox starts, show my homepage", so one > might reasonably infer that start.fedoraproject.org is the default home > page for Fedora-packaged firefox. > > However, if I click the "home" button on the toolbar, or use Alt+Home, I > get the Google Firefox home page: > http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official > > Even explicitly setting my home page back to start.fedoraproject.org > does not change the behavior of the home button. > > I could swear that the home button used to simply take me to the Fedora > start page, but not now. > > I know it's stupid thing; I don't much care which page is used, but I'd > very much like to know what's going on. Maybe something to do with FF3 > entering release-candidate phase? On my system (firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.x86_64) the Home button takes me to my home page. OT: I'd actually like to get rid of the Home button as it just takes up space, but in contrast to the other bookmarks in the toolbar it doesn't have a Delete option in the right-click menu. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > OT: I'd actually like to get rid of the Home button as it just takes up > space, but in contrast to the other bookmarks in the toolbar it doesn't > have a Delete option in the right-click menu. Right-click the home button, select "customize", then drag the home button onto the resulting window Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
I just did some experimenting, and apparently the firefox designers felt compelled to introduce two different concepts: 1) The page displayed at firefox startup. 2) The home page. Obviously, we can all see the burning need to have those be configured to point to different places :-). In the preferences, I set the "startup" page to be be "blank", then I exited firefox, started it again, and observed that I did indeed get a blank page. Then I went back into preferences and set home page to be "current page", so finally I have home and startup pointing to the same place. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 20:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > In the preferences, I set the "startup" page to be be "blank", > then I exited firefox, started it again, and observed that I > did indeed get a blank page. > > Then I went back into preferences and set home page to be > "current page", so finally I have home and startup pointing > to the same place. I found the first page Firefox starts up with was the home page that I set. I only set the home page the once, and didn't do any fiddling around other than: Load the page I wanted as a home page. Drop the favicon for it (left of the URI) onto the home icon. Okay the box that popped up. The only time I find Firefox changing to a different start page is after an update. Then I get their default start page, the first time Firefox is loaded. Subsequent loads work as I'd previously configured it. I don't have to change anything to make it stop showing me their start page. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 19:34 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > OT: I'd actually like to get rid of the Home button as it just takes up > > space, but in contrast to the other bookmarks in the toolbar it doesn't > > have a Delete option in the right-click menu. > > > Right-click the home button, select "customize", then drag the home > button onto the resulting window Thanks, that worked. It's simultaneously completely logical and totally non-obvious (i.e. lacks "affordance" as they say in the HCI trade). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?
Tom Horsley wrote: ... In the preferences, I set the "startup" page to be be "blank", then I exited firefox, started it again, and observed that I did indeed get a blank page. Then I went back into preferences and set home page to be "current page", so finally I have home and startup pointing to the same place. Now try that using http://start.fedoraproject.org as the home page. Using startup = blank, when I click "current page", FF enters "about: blank" in the home page field. Using startup = home page, and showing start.fedoraproject.org, clicking "current page" does nothing. Entering http://start.fedoraproject.org in the home page entry sets that as the home page, but does not affect the "home" button. Maybe I only imagined that the home button once went to the Fedora page. Maybe they want some easy way for newbies to get to a known page. I just though it was a little weird that the home button doesn't go to the users home page. Thanks for having a look. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
