Where is whats new setup?

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Thu Aug 6 13:59:55 UTC 2009


On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:43:15 +0200
Andras Simon wrote:

> On 8/6/09, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> > Whenever I start firefox for the first time after an update,
> > it jerks me off to this (or a similar) web page:
> >
> > http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.2/whatsnew/
> >
> > Anyone know where this first time run nonsense is setup?

Found it! In theory I can set (in about:config) the
parameter browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone to the
string "ignore" and it will stop doing this (I'll find out
on the next FF update if it works).

> 
> I don't, but Ctrl-w is your friend.
> 
> > I'd like to run firefox via a script that clobbers it
> > before starting firefox :-).
> >
> > Come to think of it, I'd also like to clobber the
> > "firefox closed abbynormally, restore windows?" dialog
> > as well, anyone know where the previous session
> > nonsense is stashed so I can remove it?
> 
> That "nonsense" is one of the best features of FF. I was more or less
> forced to use Opera before FF got it.

Oh, Firefox crashed! Let's go directly back to the page that
made it crash!

> 
> Andras
> 




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