Comment 22 for bug 19033

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Jordan Erickson (lns) wrote : Re: [Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

What's interesting, IIRC, is that this bug doesn't exist in Debian.
Maybe someone can verify this and track it down that way?

Philippe Seewer wrote:
> Jordan Erickson wrote:
>
>> Philippe, it's great to have workarounds but let's not treat this as a
>> "solution" - the problem lies in that /etc/firefox-3.0/pref/firefox.js
>> (which has always been the default global config for Firefox, regardless
>> of Xulrunner) does not honor the browser.startup.homepage pref.
>>
>
> Jordan, I wholeheartedly agree. My workaround is not a solution, it's
> just a workaround until we have a solution which will probably be around
> 2011 or so.
>
> Seriously, I've tried hunting down that bug a few times over the last
> few years with no success. Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Philippe
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