Silly Question

[#1]

Is there a way to send out a default web address to Firefox? Safari picked it up via imaging, but Firefox did not. Thanks!

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Kathie Iorizzo
Lower School Technician
The Latin School of Chicago
kiorizzo at latinschool.org
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[#2]

firefox stores all this information in the profiles folder. the file is located in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ RANDOMTEXT.default/prefs.js it is stored in this string:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://en-us.start.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official ");

jorge a. najera-ordonez

[ernstcs]

Yup, what Jorge said. We actually create the package and launch the application once and configure the browser as needed. Then I actually change that random profile name to something I know what it is, like UWEC.default and also edit it within the profile.ini so it always looks there. Fill User Templates and your, good. I like using a specific profile folder so it is possible to control making updates to something in it later since I know what the path should be instead of something random.

Craig E

[#4]

I actually created a separate package for Firefox 3 that does the
On 8/31/09 9:43 AM, "Kathie Iorizzo" <kiorizzo at latinschool.org> wrote:
customizations, and I have Casper install it after Firefox 3 is installed.

These are the files that I've modified to set defaults (and disable
auto-updates):
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/browserconfig.properties
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/defaults/firefox.js
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/defaults/firefox-branding.js
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/profile/bookmarks.html

I can't remember which one of those holds the 'You've been updated' URL, but
my users no longer receive that notification when we update Firefox.

These changes will only have an effect on new Firefox profiles. If you want
to change it for all users that already have a profile then you will need to
create a script that sets the pref that Jorge mentioned for each profile in
each user account.

David
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