Bug 24409

Summary:	Retrieve the default Firefox homepage when the browser is launched
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jean Michel Varvou <jeanmichel.varvou>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11, nicolas.salguero
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	firefox	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	25105
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	Screenshot of the problem : Homepage Firefox Preferences Firefox for Home Default homepage desired (works for a new tab)

Description Jean Michel Varvou 2019-02-23 14:24:32 CET

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Retrieve the default homepage when the browser is launched.

When you launch Firefox, you get the mageia.org site as your home page instead of the Firefox site (search area, shortcut to websites). This operation is problematic because the user cannot use Firefox options to restore this default behavior except for the launch of a new tab. At this stage, when opening the browser, you can either force a site to display via its url or have a blank page.

It seems to me more suitable to promote mageia.org and this in order not to disturb our users, either to rely on the MageiaWelcome tool, or to have a shortcut on the home page by default firefox. 


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run firefox with a new profile (firefox -p) to restore default operation

Comment 1 Jean Michel Varvou 2019-02-23 14:25:26 CET

Created attachment 10777 [details]
Screenshot of the problem : Homepage Firefox

Comment 2 Jean Michel Varvou 2019-02-23 14:26:43 CET

Created attachment 10778 [details]
Preferences Firefox for Home

Comment 3 Jean Michel Varvou 2019-02-23 14:27:39 CET

Created attachment 10779 [details]
Default homepage desired (works for a new tab)

Comment 4 Nicolas Lécureuil 2019-02-23 17:56:22 CET

ok i understand, 

what would be nice would be to not modify "Firefox home" but create a new default page "Mageia Home"

I am right ?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 5 Jean Michel Varvou 2019-02-24 06:32:32 CET

Hi Nicolas

Yes, to correct the anomaly, the easiest way is probably to choose the solution to create a Mageia homepage without altering the firefox homepage.

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2019-02-24 11:01:06 CET

Assigning to all packagers collectively, since there is no registered maintainer for Firefox.

Summary: Retrieve the default homepage when the browser is launched => Retrieve the default Firefox homepage when the browser is launched
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: (none) => firefox

Comment 7 Jean Michel Varvou 2019-04-06 09:52:01 CEST

Hi

In the meantime, the workaround to the problem is as follows:

1) At the url bar, enter "about:config"
2) Search for the variable "browser.startup.homepage"
3) Replace the value of the variable set to "data:text/plain,browser.startup.homepage=https://www.mageia.org/" with "about:home"
4)Save the change.

Nicolas Salguero 2019-07-13 14:25:57 CEST

Depends on: (none) => 25105

Comment 8 Nicolas Salguero 2019-07-13 14:27:46 CEST

Hi,

In Mageia 7, Firefox 68 sets the variable "browser.startup.homepage" to "about:home".

Best regards,

Nico.

CC: (none) => nicolas.salguero

Comment 9 Jean Michel Varvou 2020-08-16 11:49:51 CEST

Problem fixed with recent versions of firefox ESR

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED