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)

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

Cheers

Jarek



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