SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS Archives

March 2012

SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:09:13 +0200
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (44 lines)
On 03/29/2012 03:51 PM, Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> Hello
> 
>> I'm not looking for theoretical replies, but rather someone who is _actually_
>> doing it and has it working.  There must be someone out there who's got this
>> worked out on SL/CentOS/TUV.
> 
> We do.
> 
> with Firefox 10/Thunderbird 10 is is enough to drop files in
> preferences directories (without altering original ones): these
> are processed in sort order on startup.
> 
> /usr/lib64/firefox/defaults/preferences/somefile.js
> (/usr/lib64/thunderbird/defaults/pref/somefile.js)
> 
> (of course change lib64 to lib on 32bit platform)
> 
> Now, unfortunately it does not work for browser startup page,
> apparently because of:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461880
> 
> (yes I know it is an old bug for FF 3.0 , but looking at
> spec file for FF 10 a workaround for this bug is still applied ,
> which may not be necessary anymore)

Sorry, writing faster than processing info ;-): a different workaround but still
causing same problem is in place instead.

> 
> The workaround used prevents browser home page customization from js preferences:
> to get rid of it you would need to rebuild firefox disabling/changing it in spec
> file or repack all/some  /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks/langpack-*.xpi files
> changing content of chrome/*/locale/branding/browserconfig.properties
> 

Jarek
__
-------------------------------------------------------
_ Jaroslaw_Polok __________________ CERN - IT/OIS/ODS _
_ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _
_____________________________________ +41_76_487_9487 _

ATOM RSS1 RSS2