Firefox extension not setting homepage

[broder]

Ken T Takusagawa wrote:
> In previous versions of Athena, the default home page was 
> web.mit.edu.  When starting up firefox for the first time 
> (after rm -fr ~/.mozilla), I get start.ubuntu.com/8.10

geofft mentioned at one point that he didn't think the extension was doing anything to fix the homepage.

[rbasch]

Our extension does set the default homepage, but it is getting overridden by the ubufox extension's preferences. (See  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259914 for more info).

We might be able to work around this by adding our preference settings to /etc/firefox-3.0/pref/ubufox.js.

[broder]

For some unrelated testing, I just moved my Firefox profile out of the way and started Firefox again. When I did, I got web.mit.edu as my homepage, so there may be something more complex happening here.

[rbasch]

Fixed, by diverting/transforming /etc/firefox-3.0/pref/ubufox.js (where it exists),
adding our homepage preference setting to it. Built and uploaded to -proposed.

[broder]

I can confirm that this worked after blowing away my Firefox profile and testing from an Intrepid cluster machine.