Hi all, I'll answer part of my question by saying putting a firefox.js file in /usr/lib/firefox-12/defaults/pref results in that file being honored by thin clients, but not if firefox is being run as a local app. Since I am running local apps, I guess my question is reduced to where/how does firefox.js have to be to work with local apps under Ubuntu Lucid? Any current howto's or pointers would be appreciated!
John On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, john <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I'd resurect this old thread and ask is the current (as of May > 2012) way to force global firefox preferences to create two files, one > /etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js and one in the > /usr/lib/firefox-version/firefox.cfg ? That seems like a huge step backward > from the days when you could control behave from a single firefox.js file > located in /etc/firefox/prefs/. > > I assume for fat clients/local apps it would be > /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/firefox/prefs/firefox.js and > /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/lib/firefox-version/firefox.cfg ? > > Thanks for any light you can shed. > > John > > > Am I misunderstanding how this is currently done. And does anybody > understand why this keeps changing? > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Emmanuel Le Normand < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Jeffrey, >> >> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:10:40 -0500 >> Donaldson Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Good Morning, >> ------------------ >> > I then took a customized firefox.cfg file and placed it in >> > /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1. If I launch firefox, I get an error that it >> > couldn't read the configuration file. So I downloaded the mozilla 13 >> > byteshift perl script and ran it on my cfg file. Then Firefox >> > launches successfully, only problem is that it doesn't seem to be >> > pulling or locking any of the preferences I set in the file (most >> > importantly, browser.cache.parent_directory). Can anyone tell me what >> > I'm doing wrong? Or is there a better way to set Firefox to cache >> > locally for all users? >> >> Why don't you desactivate this firefox's option >> "browser.cache.disk.enable" ? Cached web pages with thin client it isnt >> interresting, no ? >> >> And I googled "browser.cache.parent_directory", and the good option is >> "browser.cache.disk.parent_directory". >> >> Best regard >> Manu >> >> PS: Sorry for my bad English... >> >> >> >> -- >> Emmanuel LE NORMAND >> >> Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble >> Direction des Systèmes d'Information >> Tel: 04768-27880 >> >> Adhérent APRIL http://www.april.org/ >> S'il vous plaît, évitez de m'envoyer des pièces jointes dans un format >> propriétaire Voir >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html >> >> -- >> edubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >> > >
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