Closed Bug 226866 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

The wrong homepage opens at startup.

Categories

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: fredc, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 I have set homepage preferences to an intranet site but when I start Mozilla it opens www.mozilla.org/start which then bounces to www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/. I have also told it to start with my homepage but it still opens the mozilla page. I have checked the registry and it shows the correct homepage. I also checked all.js for a preference that shows the mozilla page but have found nothing. Once mozilla is open, if I click the home button, it takes me to the correct homepage. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start Mozilla 2. 3. Actual Results: It opens the mozilla page instead of my homepage. Expected Results: Opened the homepage I placed in preferences. I am serving Mozilla in a terminal server environment and my users get confused easily so I would like to have it open the correct page as soon as possible.
Does Mozilla always launch the startup page ? Do you use 2 different Mozilla (also Netscape6.x/7.x) versions on the same system ?
Yes, Mozilla always launches the startup page mozilla.org/start/1.5/ even though I have specified a different homepage. The only other browser loaded on the terminal server is IE6 which rarely gets used but is needed by a couple of users. The Mozilla 1.5 install is an upgrade to 1.3 but does not run with any other version of Mozilla or Netscape.
reporter (Fred), is your prefs.js in your profile directory locked? Also, do you have a users.js?
Sorry for the delay folks but I just figured out how to fix this obscure problem. You have to drill down the the file C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\chrome\US.jar and uncompress the US.jar file to a folder on the desktop. I called the new folder fix for my purposes. You then have to drill down in this new folder to the file \locale\US\navigator-region\region.properties and open region.properties in notepad. Change the "browser.startup.homepage=" and "startup.homepage_override_url=" to whatever you want the start page to be. Save the modified file and recompress the entire contents of the fix folder as US.jar. Replace the original US.jar with the new one you created and viola, the problem is fixed. I started tinkerring, opening every file in the program till I got this one, modified it and fixed my problem.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
no patch = not fixed
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
-> wfm
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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