Firefox unable to set up HomePage again

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 19:16
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I used bleachbit in the admin mode the clean up almost everything, I used to clean the places in the firefox too. I was okay with the operation.
But now, the firefox is unable to hold on to any homepage I set. After setting the homepage, I go to about:config to see it is set properly, restart firefox and see again, it is vanished and homepage is set to some other default.

Firefox version 3.0.14
Bleachbit version 0.6.4

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Senthil

andrew

Tue, 10/06/2009 - 20:28

I haven't heard of this problem. Thanks for reporting it. I'll check in to it.

Are you using Linux? Which Linux distribution and version (Ubuntu 8.10, for example)?

As a workaround, you can try this
1. Close Firefox
2. Run this command in a terminal mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.backup

The command completely resets your Firefox settings.

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Andrew, lead developer

Senthil (not verified)

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 11:30

Thanks for the response and the troubleshooting suggestion. That pretty much fixed it.
The problem seems to be real one. I had a couple of extensions installed like sxipper, they started behaving odd too, like wanting to import passwords from firefox everytime (which it should not).
I am on Ubuntu 8.10.

Thank you,
Senthil

andrew

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 20:11

Sorry, I cannot reproduce this problem. I tested Firefox 3.0.5 on Ubuntu 8.10 with BleachBit 0.4.2 and BleachBit 0.6.5 with and without the option 'overwrite files to hide contents.' Each time, I opened Firefox, clicked Edit - Preferences, typed a new URL for the home page, exited, and re-opened Firefox. My Firefox did not have any extensions.

If you can figure out how to reproduce the problem, please let me know.

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Andrew, lead developer