Re: Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 17:26 +0000, g wrote:
On 12/30/2011 04:38 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
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No bing search plugin is present.

if you follow what Patrick suggested and find that problem is in your
profile, you can use new profile and rebuild or...

ok. now the 'long part'.

with firefox closed, open a file browser, move to your firefox profile
directory;

/home/aaron/.mozilla/firefox/????????.default/

open a terminal, enter;

grep bing * > 00-bing.0001

if file size great than 0, open '00-bing.0001' to see what files have
'bing' in them.

make a backup copy of files. open the files and insert '#' or required
comment mark at start of line/s that read 'bing'.

also, if you find 'bing' and it shows a directory path, rename 'bing'
directory.


next open directory 'extensions', look for a directory with 'bing' in
name. if none, open each sub directory and view files, looking for
reference to 'bing'. or, open terminal and;

grep bing *

no need to redirect to a file, unless you want. if any file does have
'bing', move to top of path, in 'extensions' directory and append an
extension to that directory to block it being used.


i know this is a lot to go thru, but you can imagine what i have gone
thru to find these little 'tricks' to find problems.



Let us be clear. You want me to cd to .mozilla/firefox/o8u6238s.default.
o8u6238s.default is the name of my default file.
Then run: grep bing * > bing.out

That returns a file with 4 lines , 28 words and 110008 characters. The
file is completely unreadable (mostly gobbely gook)
Well you can find bing appearing in the file but not a line which you
can easily deal with.

I could grep each file in the directory but that is a lot of work for a
minor annoyance But maybe I will do it some day.

But in principle I am sure this method would trace down the problem.
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