Thanks Steve. I'll try adding a local-settings.js with the two general
configs and seeing if that helps. Just out of curiosity, if one of your
students goes to about:config or about:cache, do they see the settings?
On 11/16/2011 01:22 PM, Rippl, Steve wrote:
That does look fine. So the one difference we have is that in
/etc/firefox/prefs we put the 2 lines
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg");
in a separate file we call local-settings.js, rather than within the
firefox.js. I'm assuming everything in that folder gets read and this
shouldn't make any difference, but it's the only difference I can see
at this point.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I don't believe it to be a syntax issue, but here's the file
before running the byteshift on it.
On 11/16/2011 12:43 PM, Rippl, Steve wrote:
That should work, we have root:root 644 and that works. Have you
tried commenting out all the javascript in
/usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.cfg just to ensure it isn't a
syntax error in the file itself causing it to complain?
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Steve,
Thanks for the reply. I have user and group setup with
nobody:nogroup and 755 permissions. Is this wrong? How do you
have your permissions setup? Currently we don't have it setup
as a local app. Thanks for your help!
Jeff
On 11/16/2011 11:31 AM, Rippl, Steve wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
I've been trying for a few days now to get Firefox to
cache pages to /tmp locally for all users. I updated to
Firefox 7, then edited the firefox.js in
/etc/firefox/pref to include these lines -
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); (supposed to
tell FF not to worry about byteshift)
pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg");
I then took a customized firefox.cfg file and placed it
in /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1.
This is what we do (to lock down network settings and the
like) and it works. The only problems I can think of are
permissions issues on /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.cfg
(can the user read it?) and whether you have an error in the
JavaScript in the .cfg file? Then again this is all run on
the server for us (no local apps), are you running Firefox
as a local app?
For what it's worth, we found that many apps and even the
Gnome desktop itself didn't work that well with nfs mounted
home folders for the students. We've since moved to having
real local folder on each of the LTSP server (we have
multiple load balanced) and we use csync
(http://www.csync.org/) to synchronize those with the
central file server on login/logout and every 10 minutes
they're logged in. Performance went up dramatically and the
load on the file server is almost nothing.
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Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
360 841 2730 <tel:360%20841%202730>
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Regards,
Jeff Donaldson
Data Services Manager
Newark Charter School
(302) 369-2001 ext:425 <tel:%28302%29%20369-2001%20ext%3A425>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
360 841 2730 <tel:360%20841%202730>
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Regards,
Jeff Donaldson
Data Services Manager
Newark Charter School
(302) 369-2001 ext:425 <tel:%28302%29%20369-2001%20ext%3A425>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
360 841 2730
--
Regards,
Jeff Donaldson
Data Services Manager
Newark Charter School
(302) 369-2001 ext:425
[email protected]
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