[wpkg-users] Firefox Proxy - unlocked

[Justin Brinegar]

>> there are some that will not default.  Specifically, I encountered  
>> issues with defaulting the homepage in Firefox 3.5.  In Thunderbird (and  
> 
> I'm still using 3.0, but i simply use:
> 
> 	pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.sv.lnf.it/");
> 	pref("browser.startup.page", 1);
> 
> and works..

I ended up putting this in the default profile (using user_pref() in 
prefs.js).  It affects new user Firefox profiles, but not old ones.  It 
simply would not default correctly if I used defaultPref in the config 
file.  I tried it on 2.X and it worked, tried it on 3.0 and it worked, 
but 3.5.2 didn't and I don't know if it has been fixed.

> 
> 
>> and default preferences.  You can do some pretty cool things with it in  
>> Thunderbird, especially if your organization uses a single-sign on  
>> technology and has an LDAP server.
> 
> Ahem, can you give some feedback? ;-)
> 

Prior to this change, new users would have to configure Thunderbird by 
hand.  And while we provided instructions, we'd still get contacted 
about configs fairly often.  It sounds like our configuration is quite 
similar to Greg Orange's.  Our users love it because they launch 
Thunderbird and it 'just works'; we like it because we get less menial 
problems.  If you'd like to see the configuration I used, ping me off list.

Justin

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