Not a Firefox bug but an OEM issue, marking as "Invalid"
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320767
Title:
Users unable to change default home page, address
http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home keeps coming back
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
I have recommended pre-installed Dell laptops to many new Ubuntu
users. One of them started to complain a few weeks ago that the start
page of Firefox is http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home and it is
impossible to change.
Indeed, when I tested to change default search engine or URL of the
home page the UI of Firefox allows me to do it, but once Firefox is
restarted all those settings are lost and Yahoo comes back as the
default search engine and home page URL is set to
http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=dell_lin-home.
This is really bad, because the Finnish users in question really have
no interest in US-centric nonsense entertainment news from Yahoo and
none of the content is in Finnish.
I've deactivated the http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/
respository and de-installed the Dell packages that look safe to
remove, and I did delete ~/.mozilla/firefox to make sure it is really
a system wide problem that presists. I haven't found out what package
injects these behaviour in Firefox. What are the options, what can be
done?
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