226866 - The wrong homepage opens at startup.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Fred Chavarria]

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.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Does Mozilla always launch the startup page ?
Do you use 2 different Mozilla (also Netscape6.x/7.x) versions on the same system ?

Comment 2

[Fred Chavarria]

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.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

reporter (Fred), is your prefs.js in your profile directory locked? Also, do you
have a users.js?

Comment 4

[Fred Chavarria]

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.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no patch = not fixed

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm