Lock homepage in firefox for normal users?[Scanned]

Wed Jul 5 04:40:45 UTC 2006

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 05/07/06, Chris Bradford <chrisbradford at cambridge-news.co.uk> wrote:

>> As an enterprise environment we lie to have control over this kind of
>> setting

> Are you really sure that this is nessaccary? No offence, but it seems
> rather control-freakish

Corporate desktops invariably have, as their home page, a portal to
their intra-net and local mail. If users, potentially more than one per
machine, futz around with the home page setting, they can easily get
lost and forget the various URLs. I would assume that the sysadmin,
wishing to save time on unnecessary support calls, would want to lock
down the home page for that purpose.

However, this is a problem that is more common on Windows, since it has
to contend with browser hijackers and "make this your homepage" type
COM/ActiveX popups, that you just don't get under Linux, nor with
Mozilla browsers. However, there is certainly no harm in locking it down
(at work) and might actually save a few headaches.

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