Closed Bug 235981 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Ability to override browser.startup_homepage_overide for new milestone builds.

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 102313

People

(Reporter: jasonb, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:) Gecko/20040226

Every time a new milestone build is released, users are automatically taken to
Mozilla's "how to get involved" Web site.  This is a great idea for soliciting
help from people.

However - for all of us who *have* been involved for many years, and already
know about all of this - it's nothing but a royal pain to have our homepage
setting hijacked in this fashion.

I propose a hidden preference (those that are familiar enough with Mozilla would
be able to track it down, those that aren't don't need it and can continue to
see the "getting involved" page) that would allow us to block this behaviour.

Speaking personally, I have a homepage that will never change.  Therefore, I
have (finally having got fed up with this) set "startup.homepage_override_url"
to my homepage.  Of course this always overrides my homepage - but since it
doesn't change anyway that's okay.  But for those who *do* change their homepage
a more permanent solution should be in place.

I suggest for the preference something like "startup.homepage_overide_disallow".
 If you create/set it to "1" in your user.js file, then new milestone builds
won't ever be able to hijack your homepage.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download a build of a milestone greater than what you're currently using.

Actual Results:  
You're taken to Mozilla's "how to get involved" site against your will.

Expected Results:  
Some way of overriding this behaviour for people who are already involved, know
all about it, and don't want to keep having their homepage hijacked.

Please redirect this to the appropriate component.  I wasn't sure if
Preferences: Backend was it, and thought that Browser-General, although
annoying, was at least safer initially.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102313 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I swear I searched on "override" as well as "homepage" (the latter of which is
not in that bug's summary)...
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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